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TBR's avatar

Just an aside, Obama did NOT have radical

Left politics, they were actually neoliberal, the right wing of the democratic party, much closer to Reagan than FDR and the New Deal...

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"But how do you talk about the end of slavery as if white people are the heroes of that story without recognising that they were also the villains?"

The real and significant division is not between white and black. The division is between those who oppose the whole idea race and skin as being valid measures of an individual, and those who reject the whole idea of individuals and insist on seeing only the racialized collectives. This is the division that matters, and today, within each side of this division we find both Black and white individuals, except on the one side they see themselves as individuals while on the other side they see themselves as "bodies."

You know this. But it is very difficult to avoid being drawn into accepting and using the frameworks of one's opponents. I think this is what happened here in this discussion.

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