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In reply to the discussion: White People Think One Black Person's Success Proves Racism Is Over [View all]BainsBane
(53,135 posts)That is divisive. Forcing the majority of the population to remain silent isn't divisive. Instead, allowing people of color and women to speak in public is divisive. Becoming angry that someone posts about a Republican like Bill Bennett, and siding with him over fellow Democrats, is in my view divisive. How can that be about unity of the Democratic Party?
Here's a basic fact. Snowden, Hillary Clinton, drug policy, guns, and every other issues that Democrats are divided by prompt no concern. Rather, what cannot be tolerated is a perspective of people of color to be voiced in public. "Unity" requires they stay in their place, just like women who dare to think rape and violence matter.
As others on this board have pointed out many times, division along racial lines exists already. What you and others object to is the view from the other site of that divide. That anyone can get so agitated over the very small number of people of color on this site says a great deal.
Your version of unity is not in fact unity but exclusion of non-white male voices, one that privileges a RW like Bill Bennett over members of this site who care about racism. The majority demographic of the Democratic Party is women and people of color, yet for some reason some here on DU insist that majority not be allowed to speak in public. Rather the only acceptable concerns are those set by the demographic that most reliably votes Republican. Anyone outraged at the existence and voices of people of color and women doesn't have enough in common with someone like me to be divided from. That you think the majority has no right to speak and you take up in support of Bill Bennett over a fellow Democrat tells me you have no respect for the party, liberalism, or the majority of the American public.