There hasn’t been a decade in the past 130 years of their existence that Progressives haven’t advocated for systemic racism. We have dozens of programs that we

There hasn’t been a decade in the past 130 years of their existence that Progressives haven’t advocated for systemic racism. We have dozens of programs that were later legislated against or later ruled illegal by courts. There was no time Progressives were against racism. Notable black leaders like Malcolm X correctly pointed out that white Progressives never supported black people — but were appropriating their voices as a cudgel against other white people, eg in an internal power struggle of the Democratic Party where the northern Progressive faction drove out the Dixiecrats. 2025 is the year that Progressives need to accept their perennial racism is no longer acceptable, even if they appropriate the language of civil rights to justify their continued bigotry.