Yeah, I kind of agree with you here. It’s impossible to adequately separate race out as an issue on a vote when your vote

• must be a choice made on several issues, not one. The economy was the biggest issue by voters. Racial justice was second on this ticket, so more people are thinking about it and that’s good.
• be effectively placed to combat racism. Congress makes the laws, not the President. So it’s ridiculous to look at the Presidential vote as the sole determiner of whether or not America is voting for racism. We don’t know beforehand who the President will choose to staff significant positions that would be help or hurt in regards to racism.
• be made between two choices. This time it was two old white men, both of whom spent their formative years during the era of segregation. One spews hate speech, panders to illegal white supremacist militias every other day, and pushed to have innocent men lynched (Central Park 5). The other was a key component in having a law passed that led to the prison pipeline of black men and said, “if you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black!” With all the propaganda and divisive rhetoric out there, can you blame anyone for thinking this time around there is no vote against racism?
• be made between two parties, both of whom have historically ignored and under delivered on the issue of race. I find it interesting that the largest percentage of American voters identify as Independents, not Republican or Democrat. But we have no political party. No voice other than to pick the best of two bad options more often than not; which one seems to do the least damage this cycle. No candidate to put forth to speak for us and our values. And we get raked over the coals by extremists in both parties at every turn.

Still, if you vote well for the economy, for climate change, for accountability and responsibility in governance, for equality of justice, to uphold the ideals of this nation; and you vote to reject such things as court packing, divisive speech, pettiness and greed, punitive policies over ones that address the roots of problems, disenfranchisement, and voter supression, etc., then you are voting against racism.