Let's be clear. Diversity is good in itself. Representation does matter. The social element, the mind, does matter.
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But just because Barack Obama let us down, doesn't mean that there is no inherent value to representation and diversity in who holds power.
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Yes we want to restructure power relations altogether. But in the meanwhile who holds power matters, and can create better and worse...
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conditions for the restructuring or revolution we want to bring into the world.
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Which is why I maintain that Barack Obama was not only better than any Republican, but was so much better than any other Dem who might run
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As insufficient as he was, as incapable of effecting liberation as his ideology is, Barack took us SO much further than ANY alternatives.
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You wanna talk about the Overton window? Without Obama, Dems might have been a Clintonite centrist party for another 20 years.
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"What's the difference between Obama center-left and Clinton?" Ummmm... expanding Medicaid rather than contracting welfare?
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Ummmm... passing Dodd-Frank instead of continuing Reagan's deregulatory agenda.
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And don't tell me Dodd-Frank is just a giveaway to the big banks, if it were they wouldn't have fought the rulemaking process tooth and nail
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Also, idk, celebrating marriage equality rather than SIGNING DOMA.
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Like listen I can't be mad at people who let their love for Obama's victims override their sense of history but also like... HISTORY!
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Whatever idk how I got into this rant but basically: identity still matters, a lot. Identity politics still matter, a lot.
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And our best shot at justice is still the broad-based coalition for social change that emcompasses MANY different social movements.
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Oh and let's not forget Obama's FBI pursuing consent decrees with racist police vs Clinton's expansion of mass incarceration.
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