President Trump took to Twitter Monday morning to accuse Spike Lee of a “racist hit on your president” after the director used his Oscar acceptance speech to encourage Americans to mobilize for the 2020 election to “be on the right side of history.” Trump’s tweet raised eyebrows, since Lee’s speech did not mention the president. Even on Fox News, Brit Hume pushed back against the president’s tweet.

But it’s hardly the first time Trump has accused a prominent African American of racism. In November, for example, PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor asked Trump whether his rhetoric is “emboldening white nationalists.” Trump replied by saying, “That’s such a racist question."

The president’s recent accusations of black racism are part of a longer and larger pattern.

Read on in The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/26/what-trumps-attack-spike-lee-can-teach-us-about-racial-attitudes-charts/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9d27734779a9.