Recently a piece published by USA today, written by Andrew L Yarrow, and titled, Democrats Are Giving Up On White Men. That’s a Big Mistake. Caught my eye. The author here argues that since Hillary had Michelle Obama, a black female, give a speech alongside having a transgender women speaker, this was a message from the democratic party to white men that they’re “not on our radar”. The entire piece really leans into the idea that white men must be directly acknowledged at every chance or they’ll feel forgotten. Yarrow makes note of the Women's March after Trump and how it wasn’t called ‘a People’s March’. The argument seems to suggest that white men can't care about something if it isn’t glaringly clear it’s about them. Firstly, I’d hope we can afford white men some more credit, and if not that we should at least hold them to a higher expectation. White guys can take a backseat for a second while the long ignored groups can finally receive some attention for some much more dire issues. For many years other groups have had to listen carefully to campaigns with white men as the face of every speaker/speech giver. Yarrow, a white man, argues that the democratic party needs to be the voice of all people especially including white men. What he seems to be missing is that the democratic party is finally handing the mic to other groups, and white men need not get so angry over it, and instead try to understand how simply shining light on another group isn’t the same as taking away your groups voice.
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