Even if it wasn't, identity politics seem to be the standard of the day.
Yeah i am not so sure this is true. Onto what political group or affiliation are people of any specific group latching due to their membership in a a demographic here?
On one hand we got a number of people wanting , even desiring themselves to be considered as different and unique from others, vs people who choose to call and point out out other people's differences in kind only to be met with disapproval for one reason or another.
And people still wonder why these kind of issues come up with one hating being called out on their differences, and the other mad and angry that their differences are not being recognized.
Like a gazillion times before, nobody listens to God....er ... Morgan Freeman when he says to just stop talkin about it, dammit.
There was a time, or so we are lead to believe when race wasn't really much of a thing. This has changed. And for better or worse our society is very much involved with racial perceptions and demographics. I think people are drawn to extremes. One extreme however is pretending that race doesn't matter. Except it does.
There is a reason why many schools are still segregated even without the laws to segregate. There is a reason matriculation rates differ across races. There is a reason for the statistical disparity in lending practices, job opportunity, and housing opportunity. There is a reason for the disparity in conviction, sentencing and remedy.
Do not think I am attempting to gloss over how poverty can affect these facets even greater than race, but we cannot merely ignore racial issues because it is more convenient or even because the larger issue of poverty still looms greatly in our midst.
When i am speaking of race issues, I am not telling you that your friend who is black faces more discrimination than you, or has had a harder life than you or that you owe something. I am discussing the fact that because race is still an issue for many people we still have racial issues as a culture that we need to improve.
These issues are not tied to politics regardless of what the propaganda might say. These issues amount to individual opinions working cumulatively within our communities and nation. If you haven't heard anyone voice these sorts of opinions you're being willfully ignorant. I will be happy to find you legal cases that do in fact demonstrate racial inequality if you believe there is none and the problem is people keep "bringing up race issues."
Ignoring the subject creates an environment where these prejudiced subcultures continue to thrive.
While identity politics may have propagandized the issues in a way that is detrimental, we cannot afford to take the opposite extreme of pretending racial issues have not and do not exist.
