> I don't think so. Both Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright had problems with the CP's "we are all one race" tack. They lived long before Tim Wise.
It's not about the substantive argument, which is totally defensible. It's the way the issue is turned into this endless psychodrama. Imagine if the writer had been arguing over some different but equally important political point - say, reform vs. revo, engage the state vs. smash the state, or whatever. (Keep in mind that the language she was objecting to also claimed we are no longer divided by class either.) Her account would have been totally different in tone. Instead, the story becomes a personal drama of tragedy and triumph - "hit me in the stomach," "made me feel alienated," "so real it hurts," etc. I mean, it was an argument over the way to phrase a political text, an argument she won.
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