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Racial Unity?

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On July 16, 2016
Stacey Patton convincingly argues that Hillary Clinton speech about racial unity was wrongheaded. Beyond that, Clinton’s call for everyone to “do the work” to unite against hatred overlooks the fundamental fact that it’s whites — and only whites — who must work to fix the racist structures in our society. … To quote another historical […]
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Way too often in American political rhetoric, the working class means “white people.” That’s especially true among pundits who often talk of politicians needing to appeal to “the working class,” i.e., laid off white autoworkers in Michigan with out of fashion mustaches. African-American and Latino issues are seen as completely separate. They are discussed as […]
I think there’s plenty of room to critique Ta-Nehisi Coates from a class perspective. And I don’t think it’s particularly useful for us to look at one or two people as true seers on modern society, tendencies that tend to place them above critique (Paul Krugman is another person who among liberals is used as […]
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