Identity Politics, Sauce for the Goose Dept. 0
Annette John-Hall considers wingnut reaction to a black talk radio jock’s statement that black folks should support President Obama because he’s black.
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Aside: I’m old enough to remember white folks saying that white folks should support George Wallace because he was white and right (wing, that is).
Here’s a snippet from the article:
Is this call to blackness that Joyner espouses some kind of diabolical plot, some secret code intended to erase the post-racial nirvana some think we achieved with the election of a black president?
“Identity politics is only a problem when minorities do it. Whites do it all the time,” Johnson argues.
“It’s absolutely naive to question the unified behavior of a minority group, given the fact that [historically] the majority has always been unified in their oppression.”
He’s got a point there. I guess there’s a reason it took us so long to get to our first black president.
Read the whole thing.
