"White America’s commitment to finding a Black man to anoint as the representative for all Black people—and it’s almost always a man—is an old, old story. It is, after all, easier to deal with a token interlocutor than understand a diverse community with various needs."
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*“Black people have long been the soul of this country,” Charlamagne said, from behind his anchor desk.* I don't want to be "the soul of this country".
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He does not speak for me. Turns me all the way off, like Shaun King.
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thank you soraya!!
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Than you for performing the public service of writing it
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Isn’t this great. She said what we’ve been saying in crisp and important way.
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god, I hope he isn’t considered the voice of black America
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Yes, it is. I’m so glad someone wrote this because his ascension boggles the mind.
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Seriously.
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So much of his portion of the interview with Obama was cringeworthy. He interviews politicians now regularly but he’s saying he didn’t know what the filibuster was until reading Obama’s new book? Yet it asked to speak on radio issue on political news shows. Spare me.
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