(03-05-2020, 07:03 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: I happen to be 1/16 Native American.  My grandmother's father was of Mexican descent and married a Navajo woman.  I'm too lazy to do the math, but I'll bet that I have more "Native American" blood in me than Elizabeth Warren has.  Not that any of this really matters.

The problem is that the democrats and more specifically those on the far left are into "identity" politics and view people in "groups".  They have the need to "label" people and target their groups based on the label.  Black people are "African Americans".  Hispanic people are labeled "Hispanic Americans" and so forth.  People are not just Americans to them, they must be assigned to a group and be pandered to.

They don't realize how much that divides us.  A very good example is how Hillary changed her speech pattern according to the audience.  It was so condescending and fake that it should be insulting to some people, yet it is never pointed out.

Race/ethnicity should not be an issue on either side.  We are all Americans regardless of Heritage.  I personally don't care about the color of one's skin, the features of their eyes or their accent (if they happen to be immigrants).  I care about the country as a whole and want what is best for every American.

I was told not too long ago by a friend that he "had issues" when he learned my last name.  He had a pre-conceived notion of who I was and what I was about based on that.  It turns out that we are really good friends even though my culture and his are very different.

People really need to wake up.  Get off of your cell phone and look around.

I agree with much of what you say, but you have to admit, it all started with white people.  For example, the so-called "one drop" rule, where if you had one drop of black blood in you, you were black.  Half black and half white was considered black, as it is today, but that rule started with white people.

Liberals are just doing what conservatives did many years ago, and it's what people do all the time today, and that is, making up "rules" and "categories of people" when they think it's to their advantage to do so.  

It's reprehensible, but don't act like liberals invented this stuff.   A lot of it was the liberal reaction to racism and discrimination, when they invented affirmative action, which is a very bad policy in itself, but the idea didn't come from liberals.  That poison of identity politics originated with racists.

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