doesn’t reflect the preferred consensus, and lift up that monolithic voice as both standard bearer and moral authority on all matters relating to race. The impulse to defer to Progressive voices among people of color follows the pattern of another trend on the contemporary Jewish scene. The theory goes that if American Jewish life is to survive, the Jewish community needs to understand the “target audience”—young Jews—and design Jewish life around their social and political preferences. I don’t altogether disagree with this mode of thinking: demographic and market research have their place in
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