In my younger days, I might have pushed or fought or begun some pointless shouting match. But another thing I learned long ago is that scenes benefit from the appearance of diversity, because that appearance gives them a space to not change any actual behavior on the interior of the scene. It’s a model known all too well, where a company or an organization has some large public fuckup or gets called out on some long-known truth, and their first instinct is to bring in a Black person to help calm the noise. A politician who is charged with being out of touch with America’s Black population
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