With “sustainability” being a big woke word today, a question arises: Is identity politics sustainable?

Case in point: With vice-president-suspect Kamala Harris’s Senate seat having been filled, activists are filled with consternation because the choice is the wrong sex and race — at least for some people.

These people aren’t concerned about whether California governor Gavin Newsom’s pick, Secretary of State Alex Padilla, is competent. There is and was no talk about his philosophy on government’s role; life issues; foreign policy; regulations, the Sexual Devolution; or, perish the thought, the Constitution. Instead, the focus is on his being Hispanic.

Group identity was a major focus prior to his selection, too. “I will tell you that I do believe that there should be an African American woman in the [Senate],” Representative Karen Bass (D-Calif.), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told FOX 11 Los Angeles earlier in December. “When Sen. Harris is sworn in as the vice president, there will be one African American Democrat, one African American Republican, no African American women.”

Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) also weighed in. Apparently not a soothsayer, she said December 12 that Newsom “has a decision that he has to make, and I think that it will be a Black woman. I think he understands that.”

“You know, when Kamala Harris leaves the Senate, that’s only one Black woman who was serving,” she continued. “And certainly it would be, you know, kind of, you know, unfair not to have at least another Black woman replace her.”

If Waters was trying to put some pressure on Newsom, it obviously didn’t work. But Newsom “defied a chorus of liberal voices” opining likewise, Fox News tells us, and for some that song turned bitter after Padilla was chosen.

“When you think about the history of this country and the challenges that exist for African-Americans, especially African-American women in the Senate, definitely this is a real blow to the African-American community, to African-American women, to women in general,” said San Francisco Mayor London Breed. “It was definitely a surprise and it’s an unfortunate situation as we are trying to move this country forward and making sure that Black lives truly matter” (video below. Relevant portion begins at 5:20, but the whole segment is worth watching).

and plenty more

https://thenewamerican.com/calif-senate-and-hispanics-vs-blacks-identity-politics-contains-the-seeds-of-its-own-destruction/