Has the Democratic party become too obcessed with race?

[LanternWaste]

95. You appear, via your statement, to conflate both the public and the private arenas

"Too much" is rather subjective... much like "too much light", "too much poetry", "too much discipline", etc..., else you can provide us with an objective amount of what may or may not be too much or too little of discussion re: a thing, and on what that is based?

The (albeit local) meetups of Democrats in my area though speak little of race-- jobs, the economy, union-busting and the sell-out by the GOP Governor of state-affiliated departments to private interests are what dominate the discussions from my chair.




"the fact that doing so publicly is (correctly) a career ending move, even once in most cases. the fact that i never hear people in semi public places ever use them - ever. "

You appear, via your statement, to conflate both the public and the private arenas into one mechanism-- of which they are not. Many people do many things that they do not indeed or in fact, do on camera or in a public arena. Use of racial epithets is far from eradicated-- come on down to a summer Barbeque in north central Texas-- you'll soon realize that "coon", "nigger" "spic" and "wetback" are far from gone within the upwardly mobile white community (or, to satisfy your requirements: non-rappers). I believe we may paraphrase Twain here... "the reports of that eradication are grossly over-estimated"


It appears that your conjecture is based on little more than anecdotal experience; and, as we are all aware that we often fail to see those things we don't want to see, anecdotal experience is hardly indicative of the national, or even local amount of discourse regrading race at the expense of discussions regarding anything else...