Democratic strategist James Carville and Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin criticized their party in a Saturday video for treating all minorities as if they are identical rather than unique.
Carville, on his “Politics War Room” podcast, condemned the phrases “communities of color” and “people of color,” calling them “racist.” Slotkin, while not using the same term, agreed that it is wrong to assume that all individuals can be understood solely based on their racial identity.
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“I just want to make a disappointed observation. I think these people, the most racist thing that I hear is when people say ‘communities of color’ or ‘people of color’ because that assumes that everybody that is not white is the same, which is that, like, it’s horribly, a horribly — I think it’s racist to say, ‘Well, Filipinos are the same as Hondurans, are the same as Nigerians, are the same as Indonesians’ is absurd,” Carville said. “And they just keep using this language and I think they’re too naive to know how stupid it is. That’s my own view.”
“Yeah, I mean, I think, again, the data will show you that it’s just not accurate, right? I mean, you look at, where, you know, some of our Muslim American communities voted, where some of our South Asian American families voted. I mean, it just, it doesn’t work, at least in a state like Michigan,” Slotkin responded. “It’s like a giant mixing bowl on political preferences, and if you, you know, think that you understand a community because of their country of origin, you’re just, you haven’t run in a swing state. I’ll tell you that.”
In Michigan, former Vice President Kamala Harris only beat President Donald Trump by 29% in Wayne County, where Detroit is located, while former President Joe Biden Biden won the county by 38% in 2020, according to the Detroit Free Press. Green Party candidate Jill Stein secured 18% of the vote in the majority Middle Eastern city of Dearborn, which Trump won in November.
Trump also made substantial gains with both Hispanic and black men during the November election against Harris.
Moreover, Carville called out his party during a Feb. 6 podcast for pursuing agendas that appear disconnected from the concerns of everyday Americans, including the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) gender rules discussed during its Winter Meeting. Then-outgoing DNC chair Jaime Harrison appeared to struggle to explain the party’s gender inclusivity rules that state “in order to be gender-balanced,” the party must elect “one male, one female, and one person of any gender,” for its vice chair position.
The Democratic strategist mocked the party after reading from an article in The Atlantic about the situation at the DNC during the podcast.
“Did I just read this? Of course I did. And do you believe this? Of course you do. Because that’s the level of jackassery that — now, does any Democratic candidate? No. I don’t even know if [newly elected DNC Chair] Ken Martin himself actually [believes it]. But they do it,” Carville said. “And it’s like there’s a plant somewhere in ‘progressive’ America that just sees how many jackass stupid things that they can embrace. It’s stunningly stupid.”
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