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Ways of Seeing: ‘Vote blue no matter who’ blues

February 27, 2020

I don’t plan on writing much about electoral politics over the next months, but recent developments are prodding me to say one or two things to my fellow white Democrats. First, I would like to quote the brilliant Bishop Talbert Swan: “I’m sick of white people telling me, ‘The goal is to get rid of Trump.’ No, that’s your goal. Our goal is to get rid of white supremacy. Black people were being murdered by police, brutalized, dehumanized, and treated unjustly and inhumanely long before Trump. Your apathy is … (read more)

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