Flowers & Race

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5. There's an obvious attempt to sow racial division among Democrats

happening in print and social media, but, hey, we knew it would be revved up. Just as black leaders are all too aware that our enemies are attempting to break their powerful, monolithic alliance of liberal and conservative factions, secular and religious, rural and urban. There is a huge battle for power raging between liberalism and religious and socioeconomic conservatism, and because we have the vote we are each of us both warriors and ground to be taken.

So best we use these discussions to affirm what unites us instead, to turn these weapons back on our enemies.

Let's remember Robert Mueller's warning to us all: "The Russian conspirators want to promote discord in the United States and undermine public confidence in democracy."

And then remember that Russia's tactic is merely to augment the poisons and divisions our domestic enemies are already spreading. Our biggest enemies are right here, working mainly around and through the Republican Party, but they are all working together to break apart and conquer the people who make up the Democratic Party.

That is the one currently huge, existential problem for equality because our own liberal-dominated party is the force fighting to preserve and advance the equality our nation was founded on. We used to be able to make alliances with some Republican factions, but no more.

We're it.