Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government A New York Times columnist outlined the ways in which race and “white guilt” are playing a role in the 2020 Democratic primary.
In a Sunday op-ed for the publication, Astead W. Herndon argued that white liberals are “thinking more explicitly about race than they did even a decade ago,” pointing to recent research that shows white Americans becoming more “woke” on racial issues. Because of the shift, he said candidates in the Democratic primary “have an incentive to talk to white voters explicitly about race.”
“For years, prospective Democratic nominees came to Iowa to talk ethanol and pork subsidies and saved any rhetoric about the injustice of racial profiling for crowds in South Carolina and Nevada,” he wrote. “But in the era of Mr. Trump … it’s white Democrats in Iowa and New Hampshire — not black ones in South Carolina — who, to this point, are embracing the candidates who promise to upend society in the name of racial equity.”
Herndon explained that while former Vice President Joe Biden has “held a commanding lead in national polls with nonwhite Democrats,” white liberals have been more inclined to support candidates who are pushing “policies addressing racial inequalities.” For example, white Democrat Julie Neff, 57, who started paying attention to race issues when her daughter got engaged to an Asian man, now calls diversity “very important to me.”
“I should’ve been paying attention to this stuff sooner. But when Trump is making these decisions, I just realized it would be bad for my son-in-law and my grandchildren,” she told Herndon.
This racial inequality bogeyman lives mostly in the make believe world of the mentally ill. Equality is a delusion. People are CREATED equal. After that it’s all about rising above that LOW level & making the most out of what one has.
Those who are jealous of what others have worked hard for call these fruits “priveledge”. Instead of being inspired to also work hard. many use the claim of racism as a ploy to steal the fruits of others.
Having lived most of my life in Socal, I saw racism daily but not so much from white folk.
Living now in Iowa, where if I were to believe democrats, I should see rampant white racism, yet I see none.
I think it is time for the Democrat Party to admit that racism would soon leave America if THEY left America. Since only THEY perpetuate it!