Horizons: Dog Whistles From the Left (Updated)
What [Noam] Scheiber is basically saying is that if you want to unite whites and minority voters, you have to focus on the issues that are a priority to whites. That’s pretty much white supremacy in a nutshell. His big “tell” comes in what he leaves out of that last sentence. The reason racial groups view the issues he places at the bottom differently is because they affect racial groups differently. White people never had to be concerned about “stop-and-frisk” because it almost never happened to a white person. White mothers/fathers, wives, siblings don’t spend much time worrying that their son, husband, brother will be harassed/beaten/killed because some police officer jumped to the conclusion that he was a “dangerous black/brown man.” But that is exactly how police actions become a priority for voters of color. The fear of what can happen becomes a life-and-death issue for them - as we’ve seen lately.