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More talk about identity politics

From an opinion piece in the NY Daily News;

…race is real in America. So is gender. Racism and gender bias are serious problems. Democrats have to find a way to talk about these issues in honest language - without either mouthing platitudes or breaking out in hives.

So true. But I’m not sure how to do it. Talking about race and gender sometimes feels like trying to walk barefoot on a tightrope made of razor wire. No matter what you say, someone is bound to be hurt. Because there is so much hurt around these issues; centuries of pain are wrapped up in the skin we wear or the plumbing we came with.

I think we might need a sacrificial lamb or two; some political personalities to cut open on the altar of public opinion in order to exorcise the demons of the past.

But who?