I know that most of what Obama did for black folks was cultural and not material but I think we maaaaaaajorly underestimate how important that culture stuff was.
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and like... I don't think that black folks who voted for someone to fix their under-resourced schools and give them law enforcement that helps rather than hurts and help people get decent jobs should be singing hosannas to a man who didn't do that.
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I just think... it is valuable to recognize that the extent to which the ideological and cultural underpinnings of white supremacy---if not the actual material power of white supremacy---have really collapsed very quickly, which was both embodied and advanced by Obama.
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And I think it's valuable because I think it shows us where our advantages are, and potentially how we can press those advantages to do what is, after all, a very very difficult thing, which is to liberate minority groups within a majoritarian system of government.
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and besides that I think people actually do care a lot about immaterial shit in their everyday lives. If Obama made it 10%, 5%, even 2% easier to laugh at white people who claim we are inherently inferior rather than wonder if they're right... that matters a lot.
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