Politics + Race
Navigating The Intersection of Politics and Race Can Be Disappointing
After the ‘racial reckoning’ in the summer of 2020, conversations on racial justice are once again on the back burner.
Talking about race and racial justice is never simple. Certainly not as basic as white America made it seem during international Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. While it’s easy to call out racism on the political right, it’s much more complicated when you try to address it among liberals in the United States. Conservatism is largely based on racist political dynamics that make use of tools such as voter suppression, an ever-growing police state, the defunding of social programs, and tax breaks for the mostly white wealthy population.
Republicans employ coded language to disguise the impacts of their policy proposals and create culture wars over trivial things such as teaching history. Policies that disproportionately impact Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. They’ve designed propaganda campaigns that pit cops against the Black community in response to a movement highlighting the state-sponsored murder of civilians by police. Conservatives brought to life reactionary counter-movements against human rights issues in an attempt to drown out…
