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Everyone should read this devastating article by @tanehisicoates https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/?utm_source=twb …
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Trump exposed as an illusion the idea that white supremacist politics is over.
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The article is pretty hopeless in that it doesn't describe any solutions to the problem. But I think a couple can be inferred.
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1. It is a mistake to think Democrats can win by placating the "white working class"—by deriding "political correctness," diversity, etc.
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2. Instead they should build an anti-racist coalition of most non-white voters and white allies. More Obama, less Clinton/Sanders.
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About half of white people and their political representatives implicitly or explicitly support a racial caste system with whites on top.
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It just isn't possible to convert or compromise with these people without selling out PoC. Obama tried his best and got nowhere.
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At this point I don't know what to do other than treat this group as an obstacle that stands in the way of everyone else.
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End of conversation
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my main problem with Coates is his tendency to describe injustice as an inescapable force rather than an addressable issue
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yeah I agree. He sometimes seems to verge on doomsaying.
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Is it fair to ask people of color to offer solutions, in a case like this? This is a problem that white people need to deal with.
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