Daryl Wakeham
2 min readMar 5, 2023

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Tim,

The real point is that identity politics, broadcast as a good way to highlight racial inequality, are gleefully further dividing people, by branding the stain of trans-generational guilt and privilege.

All this due of course to the colour of a person's skin.

And that is why Scott Adams and whole lot of other 'White' people respond with such knee jerk non-cognitive venomous alacrity to a click-bait inflammatory poll's headline.

Of course there is a tremendous amount of work to do in order to better balance income disparity and eradicate America's caste system, and much has been done.

After all, it's not 1965 but rather 2023.

IOW, don't just attack the symptom of Scott Adam's career-ending pyre, but rather the cause...and big hint, it does not all boil down to systemic 'White' racism.

To do otherwise is to cast BIPOC citizens into the pits of perpetual victimhood and deny them not just their hard fought historical progress but also therefore the real gains of their heroic resiliency: aided and abetted in small part by some 'White' people, correct?

Or do 'White' Quakers and Abolitionists, or others of their ilk, many of whom ran the Underground Railway, or 'White 'Civil Rights organizers and workers, not count?

Therefore to continue to cast 'White' people as perpetual villains, as colonizers or settlers, or former slave owners or privileged and therefore unconscious Karens, will only encourage the likes of Scott Adams to continually donate to, or vote for, people like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Paul Gosar to name but a few.

Identity politics will continue to help the Republican base, whose numbers are increasing amongst Latino and Black voters, by praising the likes of 'Black' Doctors Stella Immanuel and Ben Carson, or Black Multimillionaires like BET founder Robert Johnson.

Even worse, multimillionaires like Ice Cube or Lil Wayne or Kayne West, will continue to endorse Donald J. Trump.

Or are they all blinded by the White?

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