Sam McKenzie Jr.
1 min readDec 10, 2019

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I think we are saying the same thing. I outlined the construction and functionality of the Democratic Party as Black. That framework sees Blackness as humanity and humanity coming from Blackness. And in the white-supremacist system, which is the one we are in, that mixture of color in the party makes it Black — thinking about the one-drop rule. You’re right, the party is not perfect. I compare the struggle with color in the party to colorism. That doesn’t make it better than racism necessarily, just different. And that difference should inform strategy and policies. Whites throughout history have declared which party is the white man’s party. That hasn’t changed. That’s the nature of whiteness to negate and separate. I think Dems need to wake up and be the Black that they are. Much of the problems stem from the failure to do that. Whiteness is a threat to humanity and specifically Blackness. The party has to see itself as Black to fight back.

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