Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Biden's answer on 'repairing the legacy of slavery' and 'inequality in schools and race' [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)It's true that liberals have skated by on being not racist for too long. The idea of post racial and color blindness are rooted in a carlessness that has maintained white supremacy.
That he didn't answer Lindsay Davis' the question is a horribly overlooked problem. Especially when it's so easy to answer... "I'm not responsible for slavery, AND I am among the rest of the white people in the US who benefited from it. And, it continues to hurt us all as systemic racism is persistently self perpetuating." The resistance to the possibility that those things can all be true is frustrating to those of us who do want to see anti racism replace color blindedness and not racist as political alibis used by people who don't want to hurt the feelings of people who support or have no objections to the bigotry which permeates the GOP.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided