Some thoughts this morning on race and politics. I'm far from a pundit but I have worked to push for race and ethnicity data disaggregation and some things are resonating in the discussions.

This stuff is obvious for people who actually live in communities of color but apparently not for tv political analyzers

We have a problem in how we collect data on racial and ethnic identity. Of course, people of color largely support Democrats, but because the data collected does not allow for nuances, differences are missed

This has implications for health care and we still don't know, for example, whether people of Chinese background or Vietnamese are facing bigger crises in the pandemic, because that level of data isn't collected. They're lumped into one Asian category.

Hispanics use many different terms to identify themselves, yet they are still treated as a monolith because polls don't allow for that breakdown. It shouldn't be surprising that people with different histories have very different political views https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2012/04/04/when-labels-dont-fit-hispanics-and-their-views-of-identity/

We need, both in politics and policy, to collect and report impact, experiences and opinions across more than just the high level race categories. Plus allow for diverse identities in sex, disability, gender, etc. Without data disaggregation, we miss too much.