Identical politics is a word I never heard of before. In my Women Gender studies classes, I am introduced to this word. I don’t fully understand what it means but from what I’ve read in class, Identical Politics is a control group of people in America. It requires certain categories such as, race, gender, sex, religion, ethnicity, etc. These certain groups are glorified and treated like royalty only because of their identity not because they did anything or accomplished goals. A white man in the 1960s running for president will get more respect and votes than a black man. Their identity in the eyes of politics is not valued. In “The Power of Identity Politics” The author in the bar explains that we will never move on from slavery and how black people were treated by white people. For the simple that, People who are not of color or a cultural background just want to move on from slavery and want everyone to live the same. However, we can’t “just move on” from the last 400 years. We should access and teach future generations about black history and their fight to freedom so it is not forgotten. On thing that stood out to me in this novel was that if we just move on from what black people went throught, we might bring slavery back if we just forget about it. Talking about it and making it known that black oppression is a real thing and empathize how those individuals felt.