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In reply to the discussion: Carville was right. Here's why it doesn't matter [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)is talk to those white working class voters and explain to them why they should support true civil rights and social justice efforts (not just the feel good kind that don't take any effort) and help them better understand structural racism. Part of this would be to help these people explain concepts such as "white privilege," institutional racism, anti-racism, and, yes, wokeness - and that these concepts are not an attack or an accusation against white people. They can also work to make them stop seeing civil rights and social justice as a zero sum game in which equality and equity will result in something being taken away from them.
This would be much more helpful and effective than expecting Black and Brown voters to do all of the explaining and then criticizing us because they don't like the way we explain it or expecting us to be quiet until the next election (and then kicking the ball down the road until the next election and then the next one and then the next one) because talking about these things makes white people so uncomfortable that they won't vote for Democrats - while expecting Black and Brown voters to vote Democratic regardless how uncomfortable some white Democrats may make us.
Joe Biden does this very well, but he can't do it alone.
That's my suggestion.