If the left was truly progressive they would be preaching fairness and equality but not trying to talk about skin color. A truly progre4person would say " we need to treat as people, not put them into categories. We should let people use their ambition, intelligence, experience and merit to get ahead in life." And so on.
A truly fair and equal society would use the terms people and person, not use gender, skin color, sexuality and such to dice people up into groups.
But the left prop up people based on skin color, sexuality and so on which is the exact opposite of fair and equal.