3:00 pm

Democracy in Color is presented by Conversations on the Green, which discusses the country’s most provocative issues and ideas, allowing speakers and the audience to share experiences, perspectives, and insight. The series are tied to current events and stimulate action within our community and beyond. Keep an eye out for the descriptions and registrations of their virtual symposiums.

Donald Trump is the president, the New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie wrote earlier this year, because of his brazenly racial vision of America.

Although race and identity always have shaped U.S. politics, they reemerged four years ago in what was supposed to be Obama’s post-racial America as the pivot point of the election, the unapologetic driver of Donald Trump’s unexpected victory.

But the reenergized forces that propelled Trump to The White House did not spring out of a vacuum. Rather the crowd-pleasing candidate merely marshaled spirits unleashed half a century ago in what was a culmination of the Republicans’ 50-year “Southern strategy” to push race and identity into the political forefront.

In the wake of the barbaric killing of George Floyd, as America smoldered over another case of unequal justice, Michelle Obama channeled the anguish and the anger of the moment when she said “I’m exhausted by the heartbreak that never seems to stop.”

Now, as Trump’s re-election campaign gathers momentum, three nationally known voices are coming together in Conversations On the Green’s third event of the season to discuss the role of race in American politics and how identity issues will shape the 2020 campaign for the presidency and Congress.

Guest Panelists include Joy Reed, Maya Wiley, and Jason Johnson.

Register now for the event.