> By the time of the Obama presidency, the racial-democratic ideal, typically expressed through objection to racial disparities, had effectively monopolized pub

> By the time of the Obama presidency, the racial-democratic ideal, typically expressed through objection to racial disparities, had effectively monopolized public discourse on the telos of black politics. > Today, liberals and many on the left reflexively cast “African American” and “working class” as antagonistic rather than overlapping categories. “Working class” has thus come to imply “white,” if not white racist. > From that perspective, the racial-democratic agenda of reducing, if not eliminating, racial disparities of all sorts, is the totality of the racial justice agenda. It is in this context that addressing the “racial wealth gap” has become a major item in the racial-democratic agenda. -- https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/09/push-racial-justice-beyond-race-alone https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/09/push-racial-ju... Note: I realize this thread's article concerns the U.K. while the above the U.S., but U.S. racial politics has an outsized influence on the Western European discourse, especially in the U.K.