@keithedwards is just another example of a white person saying a Black person isn’t good enough to win statewide.
Maybe now we can start having real conversations about how progressives are just as bad a moderates when it comes to race.
What never gets accounted for are the Black voters who stay home—tired of code-switching, tired of compromising, tired of being asked to shrink for people who ignore our communities every day.
What Keith said on
@higherlearning wasn’t unusual. It happens constantly. We’re told “identity politics” is the problem, while Trump was elected—and governs—on identity politics rooted in whiteness.
@jasmineforus is more than qualified. She isn’t polarizing—she just isn’t code-switching enough.
I listed 4 other Black candidates who ran and lost, were they all polarizing too Keith?
My hope is that this moment liberates Black candidates to stop chasing validation and start organizing the people who already believe they’re good enough. Those voters are home, waiting on campaigns to knock their doors. The numbers are there. The organizing just has to meet the moment.
Millions of voters opt out of the political process because we continue to chase a certain demographic and mindset. I actually like
@jamestalarico. I liked Beto. They said he was the one. He lost.
We will continue to lose if we keep letting the logic that white is right prevail.
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