The presidential competitive field is stronger because Kamala Harris has been powerfully voicing her Black American experience. Her first-generation story embodies the American dream. It’s long past time to end these racist, birther-style attacks. https://t.co/x5Wdx8DKr8— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) June 29, 2019
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Saturday, June 29, 2019
Birtherism again?!
Is Mayor Pete making an Identity point? Or pointing to both the virtues and the limits of Identity politics?
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I see the attack against her as identity politics and Buttigieg's response as inclusive. He's saying she typifies the "American dream."
ReplyDeleteI agree, of course. But doesn't referencing "her Black American experience" make it too easy for partisan non-inclusive Identitarians to dismiss HER experience as something not resonant with their own? I'm not quite sure how to express this concern, or what kind of self- and community-referential language does NOT invite such non-inclusive reaction... I'm just wishing we could find a way to talk about everyone's experience in ways that already incorporate the inclusion implicit in our shared humanity.
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