Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks takes a sledgehammer to the ethos of voters rallying behind Kamala Harris not because of her record, but because of her race
Faster than a whiplash, identity politics returned to the forefront of the political culture wars the moment the Democrat Party anointed Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee for president of the United States. Identity politics never went away; it’s always been there, the grease in the machine of America racial politics. But this time it returned to the forefront with such a ferocity and level of absurdity that it left me somewhat jaded.
I hate identity politics with a passion because it’s never done anything for the people in my community on the South Side of Chicago. All it does is emphasize and stress our Blackness while leaving too many of us underdeveloped to compete in today’s economy. It has left us with the label of inferiority, that we are a violent people, and that we need to be pitied or saved. I know this because when I travel around America and tell people where I’m from, I get a certain reaction that I know someone from Poughkeepsie doesn’t.
I also hate the idea that my skin color is supposed to determine who I vote for. That is why when I saw #BlackWomenForBiden trending on X right after the Harris announcement, I felt disappointment. Harris has not been the best public servant to Black men and women and she should be judged for her public record. Yet Black women, under the theory of identity politics, are supposed to ignore her actual deeds and vote for........