Oh, interesting. This sounds like incrementalism to me. Or do you imagine that Bernie Sanders is going to magically wave away racism with his mittens? I don't have a "flipped switch", I didn't claim to. You're the one who started talking about how "the incrementalism of yesterday does not and will not meet the needs of the fight against racism today."
I've heard that phrase too, great for stirring up a crowd, worthless for actually helping the people in "my community" who are suffering. The problem is, you seem to think that the biggest problem facing people in "my community" is white police officers shooting them. It never ceases to amaze me how sure of themselves people who have no understanding of what's going on are.
Black people in poor communities don't want less police. They want more. Black people in poor commnites aren't focused on the ~30 shootings of unarmed black people a year by police, they're talking about the ~7000 shootings of unarmed black people by civilians. You think that millionaires like Ibram X Kendi or Patrisse Khan-Cullors represent these people's priorities just because their skin happens to be the same colour? No. This is what you're missing.
People like you just love talking about colonialism and "whiteness". Academics sit around dreaming up nonsense theories like CRT to show how clever they are and hacks like DiAngelo repackage it and sell it to white people. Do you think the people who you claim to sympathise with are talking about these things? Do you think that CRT has improved the lot in life of a single black person in these communities that are dealing with the legacy of racism?
You say you lived thought that time, but did you? I don't know if you are black, but I suspect you're not. Not only because if you're black and old enough to have lived through those times then you wouldn't be naive enough to imagine that Bernie Sanders is the answer to the plight of underprivileged black people. But because I don't know a single black person who lived through that time who thinks those gains were eroded. Not one. They recognise that there's more to do. Anybody with a brain recognises that. But they understand how things were. If you didn't experience the struggles of that time then no, you didn't "live through it", you spectated. Which is why you talk about that progress so lightly.
