Does this article accurately represent the history and origin of modern identity politics in the US?

[Tammuz]

How America's identity politics went from inclusion to division

At the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Barack Obama famously declared, “There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”

A decade and a half later, we are very far from Obama’s America.

For today’s Left, blindness to group identity is the ultimate sin, because it masks the reality of group hierarchies and oppression in America.

It’s just a fact that whites, and specifically white male Protestants, dominated America for most of its history, often violently, and that this legacy persists. The stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the wake of Barack Obama’s supposedly “post-racial” presidency has left many young progressives disillusioned with the narratives of racial progress that were popular among liberals just a few years ago.

This article, really excerpt from a book, is quite a long read. Does it accurately represent the history and origin of modern identity politics in the US?

 

[repoman]

social media



https://twitter.com/meazaxo/status/1129078099881222144

 

[Tammuz]

Huh?

 

[zorq]

Identity politics started in America when some of the white folks with some power decided that they could enslave some black folks and justify it because of their blackness. It all follows from this. ...

Or Maybe it started when some of the white folks with some power decided that they could kill some 'Injuns' because they weren't white?

Eh, whatever. Racism, sexism and race/sex/religion based exploitation has been around for millennia and it is all "Identity politics."

 

[Politesse]

Article notes that there is strong quantitative evidence that discrimination against people of minority race is increasing.

Article concludes that the victims of said discrimination are the cause of racial divisions, because they dare to point out that the above is still going on, rather than helping the wealthy and privileged sweep it under the rug with grandiose language of inclusion and unity that somehow fails to help anyone. Racism will only end when traitorous, argumentative whites and the occasional unsuccessfully silenced minorities stop rocking the boat by talking about race in specific terms.

It's a historical portrayal alright; the well-heeled have been making the same stupid argument for two centuries now