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Inside The Fallacy Of Representation | Zerlina.

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In an Op-Ed in The Cut, Camonghne Felix challenges the notion that representation in politics simply means electing a person of color.

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  1. @ronimartel2215

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Yes we don't need to be concerned with what the trumplicult whines about…..they will always find something to whine about…..no matter what we do or say…..

  2. @RonFella

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Now that people are waking up to the fact that blacks are already way over represented since they only represent 14% of the population the argument switches back to the old "Uncle Tom" narrative. Predicable and transparent. Yawn.

  3. @louiswilson6950

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Yes Republicans (Representatives) are getting bolder, Much Bolder – They found out that they can say the "N" word three times in the mirror & nothing happens ! – Come get me .. "N" Word !

  4. @brothermine2292

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Representative policies should be considered much more important than representative skin color.

  5. @journeyman378

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Exactly why I don't see benifit in the CBC or a Black woman on the Supreme Court!

  6. @freda2758

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    The election of Barack Obama was when the true ugliness of the GOP came out. Their hatred for a person of color holding the highest office in our nation was too much. It forced them to question their assumed superiority. It infuriated them.

    The GOP was always polluted with racists….and in walked a two-bit con artist named Donald J Trump, who gave rise to their hatred.

  7. @terrencekane8203

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Obama nailed bin Laden.
    Biden nailed Abu Ibrahim.
    Trump nailed Stormy Daniels.

  8. @thomasdequincey5811

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    They're lying to themselves. As soon as all those Black Politicians, Judges, etc, start getting replaced by white folks, this "people shouldn't be chosen because of skin color" shtick will be dropped faster than a book on CRT.

  9. @iamtheonewhocomments201

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Unless that president is an all American black Republican then they don't represent anyone but "white sup-". Because nothing says "white sup-" than a American Justice Clarence Thomas, who just happens to be a black man. Because white Democrats writing Hollywood scripts attacking that black justice on tv shows including black child sitcom, Smart Guy, isn't "white sup-" that's just proper racism, I mean wokism.

  10. @rgwak

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    I'd love to see how maga supporters would feel if they were automatically identified as lesser people simply because of some external physical trait.
    Oh hold on…that's what those red hats do.
    My bad.

  11. @deevalerie5857

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Zerlina & the media, Please do a better job at calling-out Republicans who attack black candidates for public office, as "unqualified?" EG: COMPARE & contrast Marjorie Q-Anon Greene's, Louie Gomert's or Ted Cruz's professional qualifications to nominees being slandered?

  12. @TheUMIA

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    As Obama and Hillary have said, "it's the voters faults and not politicians."

  13. @oppressedspeakeroftruth6558

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    We went from equality…to supremacy. People see right through this racial supremacy campaign

  14. @HarambeTheHutt

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Talk about the new Johns Hopkins study regarding the ineffectiveness of lockdowns, or does that just not fit the narrative?

  15. @oppressedspeakeroftruth6558

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Just think…if Obama wasn't such a disaster….we wouldn't have voted for Trump 🤣 Obama put a man in the ladies room. And married one also!

  16. @oppressedspeakeroftruth6558

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Are we back to crying over the color of our skin?

  17. @kingsfan2099

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Why are not the white people in the institution shes in to stand up and tell her qualifications? MTG and Susan Collins don't belong in the government because of their lack of qualifications so f them. I wonder what white folk would think if we had militant black folk out making changes and not waiting for the white folk sign of approval. Keep up the work Zerlina …saving our nation one segment at a time…

  18. @TRE45ON.is.Bat5hit.Crazy.U.S.G

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    It's odd when people complain about Affirmative Action yet are silent when it comes to the benefits they acquired through red-lining, land grabs, the legacy programs at colleges, etc…

  19. @jakeherter

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    She's right, Black politicians just get rich and famous and forget that the majority of them are in inescapable poverty but their "representatives" move to corporations.

  20. @jsioux056

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    ….Some REAL news?
    Johns Hopkins University study finds pandemic lockdowns INEFFECTIVE.
    ….You're welcome.

  21. @jakeherter

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    It's disgusting to watch what they're saying about the potential nominee, beyond hypocritical beyond excegrable.

  22. @apexhacker346

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    I was with until she said "it's hard to take what any Republican serious" IT'S BOTH PARTIES! That's the problem

  23. @ronkirk5099

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Think about this – 800,000 American citizens living in the District of Columbia which is 45% black and another 10% other people of color have NO representation in Congress. Talk about lack of representation. It is long past time to correct this injustice. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.

  24. @utopal

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    Only until we remember, NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!

  25. @DUSAbruddah

    January 18, 2024 at 3:34 pm

    if representation matters, how do people feel about black republicans? Virginia first black lt woman governor got 0 air time on the people who talk about representation all the time. The first black scotus female is great because the list are qualified women.

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