PROPOSITION 2: Racism is an after-the-fact justification for the social, political, and economic dominance of property owners over workers. I refer to this as the “Grand Unified Theory of Sociology;” it tells you that minority identity politics and socialism are ultimately the same cause, a theory espoused by more commentators on the right than the left. It is completely false.
Bouie seems to be extrapolating all of history from his (only partly correct) interpretation of the origins of American slavery. Historical examples disproving his thesis abound, including, but not limited to: Roman slavery was not based on race; various barbarian groups, most notably the Vikings, captured and sold slaves of the same race; no one at the time ever suggested that European lords and peasants during the Middle Ages were of different races; and American and British mill owners in the 18th and 19th centuries made no effort to import workers of different races–they relied on the indigenous white population.
If Bouie were correct, Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination in 2020 by sweeping the black vote. That obviously didn’t happen. Minority identity politics and Marxism are, as I have noted before, different sides of the same coin; they are not the same thing.