By Henry Fowler, Stevensville
It’s that time of year again when everybody is supposed to celebrate the life of MLK, especially his color-blind dream for American society. It seems that over the past several years, however, it has been conservatives who have been more likely to celebrate that dream than liberals or progressives.
The cause of this liberal failure is identity politics, which has been embraced by the entire Left, including the Democratic Party. On May 22, 2019, black Georgia Democrat, and failed candidate for governor, Stacey Abrams, said her party should not pretend it doesn’t practice identity politics, because “identity politics is exactly who we are, and it’s exactly how we won [in the 2018 mid-term elections].”
On July 13, 2019, first-term Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and a black member of “The Squad” said: “We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need queers that don’t want to be a queer voice.” Insisting that someone with a “brown” or “black” face must adhere to and be an advocate for a certain ideology (presumably a progressive one) – in other words, that one’s skin color ought to determine how one thinks and acts – is textbook racism.
Identity politics has turned MLK’s famous quote about the color of skin and character on its head. Adherents of identity politics judge people exclusively by the color of their skin regardless of the content of their character. That’s who Democrats have become.