Here's the thing -- race is becoming increasingly irrelevant in modern-day America, and that is a threat to the race-baiting left, and is a particular threat to the Democratic Party, which traditionally has its power base in racial and ethnic groups in big cities like New York, Detroit, and Chicago, but also in the Southern states, between black and white.
Just today I saw some ridiculous restaurant commercial for a hamburger that's folded up inside a quaesidilla. This kind of ethnic mixing of food is becoming the latest craze, and it is this kind of ethnic mixing that is throwing the leftists into a kanipshin.
Kanipshin: a Yiddish word for "to throw a fit or an anger tantrum."
Also, the commercial featured five young people, two boys and a three girls or three boys and two girls, of different races and there was no attempt to make a quota out of it, they weren't even all definitely one race or another, and increasingly that is what young people in America look like. One kid looked half-Asian and half-Mexican, and one kid looked half-black and half-something else. There wasn't even a way to figure it out in the limited time I had to watch the commercial.
My son has all kinds of friends, mostly white, but there are some that are different shades of brown and I have no idea what race they are and I don't think they care either. My son's generation doesn't care about race that much, and they also don't care that much about all the other distinctions that get older people uptight.
My brother married a Filipina, and has three half-Filipina/half-white daughters. All three are very beautiful in a way all Filipina and all white girls are not. My sister married an Arab, and has a half-Arab son. His race is not easily surmised by looking at him. No one in my mostly white family cares. We are conservative Republicans mostly. We are not America's racists.
When I was in law school, I noticed that the left-wing students had themselves organized by race. There was the Black Student Union, the Asian Student Union, the Latino Student Union, and then there was the Women's Student Union. To the left it was all about race, and the conservatives didn't join those clubs and weren't welcome there.
There was a day and an age when different races and ethnic groups hated each other, and there was violence. Kids of different races and ethnicities had territories, and a kid on the wrong block would get beat up. Democrats got their power brokering agreements between the different groups, forming alliances.
But the races and ethnic groups no longer hate each other as they once did. In fact, the whole issue has become completely irrelevant, especially in the western states like Nevada and California.
And that's doing a wrecking ball job on everything the Democrats stand for, which is a divided America, especially divided by race.
So Democrats/liberals are trying to reverse racial progress as furiously as they can. With BLM they are angering blacks and turning them against police and white people in general. And at the campus, liberal professors are encouraging black students to "re-segregate" themselves from whites.
Because that is the meaning of "micro-aggression." Micro-aggression is blacks living as a minority among whites. Micro-aggression is what happens when the races put aside their differences and integrate. And up to now, the left has told us that integration is good.
Now, the left has realized that integration is very, very, bad, for them. Once blacks are among whites, and have put aside their differences, they can no longer be leveraged with racially divisive hate tactics. Blacks among whites make white friends and no longer can be turned against them.
So integration, and the racial harmonizing of America, which is happening whether the left likes it or not, is an unmitigated disaster for the left.