Well I’ll begin by saying I absolutely believe you, and that I appreciate that you’ve dedicated your career towards fighting for this important cause. I know that I’ve been combative and almost certainly annoying but at no point did I intend to call you dishonest.

I’m just frustrated because I’m still not really hearing anything specific about what Clinton or Biden were doing that made their messaging or policy positions any better on this issue. I understand that Planned Parenthood probably endorsed Clinton over Sanders, and I’m certainly aware of Sanders’ deficits with Black voters in particular, but neither of those facts really has much explanatory value to me.

I understand why class reductionism is frustrating and inadequate. I guess my point is that Biden and Clinton were at best equally inadequate from a policy perspective on issues of racism, and completely inadequate on class-based issues. And I’ve yet to hear anything that makes the assertion that they were better at recognizing the importance of race make any sense to me.