Reply #20: The strategy does two things: tries to divide the black community

[EFerrari]

and, marginalizes the whole debate.

Never thought about this before, but this is the upshot of Bush's "minority inclusive" Cabinet. The message is, "there's nothing to see here, move along" and it's a Neocon perversion of the inclusiveness we value.

Maybe not saying this well, & am Latina myself. But, in some way, they thought that by putting credentialled tokens into the Cabinet, they would deflect scrutiny. And, it looks like it's worked.

Special hell for these people, please.