"Focus on Racial Politics Has Just… Vanished"

"Race and racism continue to play a role in American life, and these are appropriate and vital issues for any political party to consider and address. But the way to do that is not by telling Americans that their country is irrevocably racist or by emphasizing the importance of racial categories. For Democrats, the best electoral strategy is also the best policy for the country: Embrace civil rights-era ideas of equality, universalism and the fundamental unimportance of skin color. And when they talk of systemic racism, Democrats should point to specific systems and how they are discriminatory, rather than gesturing at American society at large. Democrats are thankfully heading—slowly, but certainly—in the right direction, while other progressive organizations sink deeper into the quicksand of racial politics. Let's hope this trend in the Democratic Party continues and that their allies on the left soon join them."

Seth Moskowitz at Discourse argues that the "Democrats Have Started to Retreat on Racial Politics."