‘People of Color’ Do Not Belong to the Democratic Party

By Jay Caspian Kang Nov. 20, 2020

The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast on Twitter: "Now: Jay  Caspian Kang, writer at large @NYTmag, and @TenuredRadical, history  professor @TheNewSchool, debate what makes a candidate "likable," and  whether
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In the wake of the election, there has been a concerted call to stop treating Latinos and, to a lesser extent, Asian-Americans as a monolith. Such a reckoning is long overdue and certainly necessary. The easiest and perhaps most logical move would be to disaggregate “Latinos” and “Asian-Americans” — and stop treating them as a coherent population whose voting preferences can be explained through the language of polling averages and who can be reached through big-picture Democratic messaging. Read this op-ed HERE.

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