This election season, it’s more clear than ever that we must fight for white people with the same commitment MAGA is. Their strategy of deploying racism to peel away white support for the Democratic ticket is the same strategy that uses racism to bust unions and undermine progressive issues like universal healthcare and just climate solutions.
White privilege is real and it is deadly, but is not an organizing strategy to win over the millions of white people necessary to stop Trump and achieve the real structural change that working people need.
SURJ is excited to be in conversation next Thursday, Oct 17 at 8 ET with one of the country’s leading thinkers on this subject, New York Times best-selling author Heather McGhee whose book, “The Sum of Us,” lays out a powerful framework for how strategic racism breaks apart coalitions– and how we can fight back.
Trump’s agenda and Project 2025 will disproportionately target people of color. And—it will be terrible for nearly all white people too. SURJ is proud that our members are having tens of thousands of conversations with conflicted white voters in battleground states to undermine the right’s strategic racism.
