White Identity Politics
Re “Identity Politics Encroach on Civil Rights,” Commentary, Jan. 2: Joe Hicks and David Lehrer target the wrong groups. Identity politics have always been a part of the fabric of white America. They have never worked for communities of color precisely because race and ethnicity remain major factors in accessing economic and political power. Hicks should understand this. America’s institutionalized identity politics (personified by George W. Bush), rather than “teacher unions” and “orthodox civil rights groups,” etc., remain this nation’s foremost domestic problem.
Larry Aubry
Inglewood
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