Democrats are too old.

[Sympthsical]

59. You'll get no argument from me

That the Black community - and Black women very especially - have been getting the short end of the stick always and forever.

However, where you and I differ is what policy goals should be pursued and the politics that go along with them. You have a right to feel how you feel, because I believe every word you say about your own experiences. I also know that you are only scratching the surface.

However, the political approach you ascribe to is dying. It's nearly dead. Its apex was probably the early 2010s when everything came down to identity politics. When we watched neo-segregationists starting to get footholds on campuses, that was the first time I said "Uh oh" when it came to party direction.

It's not progressive. It's regressive. It's going backwards but slapping on a coat of ideological paint that makes it seem progressive.

People cannot be at each other's throats. And we are right now. We're at each other's throats within our own party. Community pitted against community. The wealthy using the inherent divisiveness of this compartmentalization against any kind of unity that might be achieved. It stymies progress.

What is the end game here? Particularly when we look at demographic shifts. Latinos are rising and will eventually become the most populous racial demographic. The fastest growing racial demographic is AAPI. The fixation on "All the problems are white people" and using that kind of Manichean approach to politics is about to be mooted.

So that approach, that compartmentalization as an ethos has no political future. By focusing so very hard on the idea that the only thing that matters is our identity, we have inevitably created a kind of "every community for itself" intraparty tension that can only be held together by the most talented of politicians. We don't have anyone like that right now, and all the little cracks are showing.

It's gotta be something else. Otherwise it is going to be a long, slow slump into a mediocrity that grows worse by the day and perpetuates systems that have disallowed minority communities to thrive as they're should. To thrive as they're owed.