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bob's avatar

Thank you for this, Qasim.

The Harris and Walz team provides Americans with records of experienced, democratic rule of law governance and constitutional civil society institution use.

An important perspective, perhaps largely left out of the current public discussions on supporting the Constitution and constitutional civil society institutions in ways that enable Americans to choose and act to cooperate in furthering everyone's common interests and rule of law protections, is the broad perspective of America as a society of social mobility that extends to all groups.

An important [in my experience vitally important] observer of this is the late Prof. Ronald W Walters, author of important political analysis e.g., White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community, 2003 Wayne State U Press [currently available in print and at archive.org on line]. An important summary evaluation is from the Wilson Center, "White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community'' Nov 2003 https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/white-nationalism-black-interests-conservative-public-policy-and-the-black-community .

The above is very short, but the points made can, today, be seen as essential for understanding the shifts in American politics.

We can inform the character and the reach of the Harris-Walz campaign effort if we are candid in our comments and explicit in our discussion of common interests and outcomes we can advance. We need everyone's comments, and we need to convince the campaigners to engage American citizens in every community. Listening needs to become careful dialogue to learn from and inform the campaign from the substance of our sense of need, opportunity and challenge.

In the Wilson Center summary is the comment "...create more rather than fewer opportunities for ... mobility"; inclusive mobility, socially, economically, politically, ... genuine and basic integrative inclusion.

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RiverCoastJane's avatar

That last paragraph of Walter’s analysis comment on what he sees as an “attempt by white nationalists to create a new black intellectual cohort that will legitimize conservative points of view in the black community” made me immediately think of Clarence Thomas. Bought & paid for no doubt.

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Sam Katz's avatar

And very expensively I understand!

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