Jesus, having tribes doesn't equal "tribal" - "tribal" is pushing your own tribe in lieu of the common good. Merriam-Webster has failed us.

Civil Rights was non-tribal - it was about integration, building up the melting pot. "Back to Africa" was tribal - withdraw, set up walls.

Celebrating diversity is not "tribal" - it is acknowledging the pluribus that we want making up the unum.

It's a bizarre claim that "other tribes" came to the rescue of separated immigrant babies - first of all, we did a shitty job, as many are still separated. Second, I don't recall it as "tribes" reacting unless we use the Venn diagram of "all non-dumbfuck soulless heavy anti-immigration rightwing freaks" as a "tribe".

And yeah, maybe some of these tribes that we think still have to exist are just laziness, comfort zone, unwillingness to look past the current structures and create something more encompassing, more welcoming.

And I'm still waiting for when gay rights spills over into greater women's rights, just as I'm waiting for greater black civil rights to spill over into greater wonen's rights. But it doesn't happen - it's a myth, a pipedream. Maybe it's because "women" aren't a tribe, just a gender or a demographic statistic.  Nothing specifically cohesive.A few issues here and there, but not really movement politics. John & Yoko's "Woman is the Nigger of the World" is still the status quo 50 years later and will be for some time if not forever.

While certain groups may have pushed for policies that affected their group they were only successful because enough people not part of that "tribe" were willing to look beyond whatever might be their personal tribe, empathize, and seek common cause with them.