"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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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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Replying to @csilverandgold
Hey, big fan, but Hillary was a big supporter of Dodd-Frank. Frank helped write her platform.
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Fair! I mean I might be underestimating the progressive-ness of 2008 Hillary. (Ofc when I said Clintonite above I meant "third way" Bill).
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