As a 21 year old white male, I am clearly not the person who should be talking about either topic, or at least that is what I am led to believe by most women and non-whites on the streets if nowhere else. However as a member of the young generation of Liberals (yeah I'm not saying "progressive", the L-word is not filthy and we should say it proudly in the face of "regressive" conservatives when they act that way), who grew up mostly with my mom (parents separated) and went to a mostly minority high school (1/8th of all students were Caucasian), I've seen by proxy much of both to the point of total disgust. In fact, the fact that I theoretically should benefit from these two I hope shows how strongly I am against it. As much as anyone wants to cry about the media, the truth stands that the media is much kinder, in my opinion, than the real world on both these issues. Ultimately, we need to acknowledge both, but that's the key word: unless BOTH sides (meaning those who supported either candidate for the Democrats) acknowledge both, and fully, then any claim that such talks of one or the other to be in the name of unity is unequivocally false as all it does is further the divide.
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