Let's be clear. Diversity is good in itself. Representation does matter. The social element, the mind, does matter.
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"Not all skinfolk are kinfolk." True! We all know that. What black folks have ever danced in the streets over Clarence Thomas?
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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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*also not any dem that might run ever but any dem that might have run in 08.
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