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This is true. But those white suburban voters joined a multi-racial coalition in which antiracism rather than colorblindness is centered. Evidenced by huge change in white public opinion on import of racial issues & (w/ asterisk) exit poll data on Dems top issue: racial justice https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1324754289458212865
Which is to say, organizers didn’t build this coalition by de-centering race and Democrats shouldn’t continue to try. It doesn’t work. You have to create a coalition that feels tied together by a common vision of the world they want and of themselves.
This common vision does not and should not erase differences. Audre Lorde teaches that the work is to create patterns for relating across differences. That means acknowledging systemic inequality not pretending we’re all positioned the same way re socioeconomic structures
Which is also to say, multi-racial organizing that centers the marginalized is wholly different from courting white moderates by *explicitly* throwing Black, Brown, Queer and other marginalized people under the bus as though their issues are not “kitchen table” enough.
And I should say the differences I’m talking about are not about “accepting” or “tolerating” divergent appearance or behavior but empirical differences in how people are subject to coercive power, deprivation and state monopoly of violence based on race/class/gender/expression.
