What mattered more than his résumé and his studiousness and his swag was the fact that this nigga had a chance. And not a “chance” the way Jesse did in 1988. But a real actual chance that enough of these white motherfuckers would treat him like a white motherfucker for him to win. Which is all we wanted. A nigga with a chance. Someone who might possibly maybe potentially actually win. I could’ve, in all honesty, given two fucks about his politics. Once I discovered he (A) was black and (B) had a black-ass wife and (C) could win, then as long as this nigga wasn’t Strom Thurmond in beigeface, I
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