Did Newark mayor Corey Booker really cross the Obama campaign when he defended vampire capital companies like Romney’s Bain? Or was he just being truer to his own, and Obama’s roots than presidents and their surrogates ought to be in an election year?…
Recall:
…It [the emergence of black elected officials] is a concession masking the face of power, which remains White. The presence of these beleaguered Black men-some of whom, after all, putting it brutally, may or may not be for sale-threatens the power of the Republic far less than would their absence…
-James Badwin in The Evidence of Things Not Seen, 1985
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