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Chauncey Devega considers how a white university president could consider the “three-fiths” compromise (PDF) to be a model for our political discourse.
A nugget:
You/we/us are footnotes and outliers.
People of color–and likely women, gays and lesbians, the “disabled”, and other folks who are not “normal” by the narrow definitions of hetero-normative, able-bodied, Whiteness–are also non-factors in the worlds of the truly race and class privileged in American society.
Read the rest. It is one of Devega’s typically tightly-reasoned, lengthy, ascerbic posts.