Democratic strategist James Carville says that Democrats have a "wokeness" problem and "we all know it," adding the party needs to talk about racial issues using the language of everyday Americans.
Speaking with Vox in an interview published Tuesday, Carville said that Democrats often discuss racial issues using language that is alienating to some of the communities they are trying to reach.
"Wokeness is a problem and everyone knows it. It’s hard to talk to anybody today — and I talk to lots of people in the Democratic Party — who doesn’t say this. But they don’t want to say it out loud," Carville said.
Carville, who served as former President Clinton's chief strategist for his 1992 presidential campaign, said in the interview, "You ever get the sense that people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges use a different language than ordinary people? They come up with a word like 'Latinx' that no one else uses. Or they use a phrase like 'communities of color.' I don’t know anyone who speaks like that. I don’t know anyone who lives in a 'community of color.' I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in ... neighborhoods."
Carville explained that Democrats also can't shy away from talking about racial issues but said that the party needs "to do it without using jargon-y language" that he called "unrecognizable to most people — including most Black people, by the way."
"This 'too cool for school' shit doesn’t work, and we have to stop it," Carville added.
QUESTION:
Does Carville have a point or is he over-analyzing, or just plain full of it?
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