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In any case, multiracial, integrated democracy is essentially the only option America has if it hopes to continue without major shifts in power, land, and political organization. And I am optimistic that America’s will to survive will overcome its more nihilistic elements.

But what has happened—enormously but not exclusively thanks to African Americans—is that the fundamentally amoral movement towards multiracial, multicultural democracy has become inextricably linked with a moral movement towards “liberation.”

And liberation, I think, spectacularly exceeds the requirements of multicultural democracy.

Of course the pressure that is generated by the desire for integration is fundamentally opposite to the pressure that is generated for liberation, for revolutionary reordering of society.

Integration simply seeks a stable state of intercultural relations within the nation, once subjugation is no longer feasible. (Dear Republicans: SUBJUGATION IS NO LONGER FEASIBLE. IT AIN’T HAPPENING.)

Liberation not only embraces but CREATES instability for the sake of a better future. Liberatory movements and integrationist movements are temporary allies of convenience.

Insofar as we were debating, in 2014, what Obama’s response to murdered black children should be—and by extent the response of the US federal government—we were not debating liberation but merely the terms of integration.

And the terms of integration make life better for black people, for brown people, for poor people, for queer people, for women, for Asian people, for not-cis people, for minorities and underprivileged people. But terms of integration ain’t ending oppression.