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joe.nalven2's avatar

From one way of reading this commentary, I agree just about 100%. From another read, it got me thinking about the premise. Take the quote by Susan Rice and her attending meetings at the State Department. About her not seeing others that looked like her sitting around the table. I imagined myself sitting at that table and finding most looking like me but not thinking like me. That I wouldn't identify with them. So, are Susan Rice and I sitting at the same table (assuming I was qualified to sit there)? Or what? Maybe it's just about what different communities find interesting when they have opportunities rather than being attracted to what some say they ought to be interested in -- even if the rational argument makes compelling sense.

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JoDavi's avatar

So true. One of the 7 tenets of Bayard Rustin's organization, Black Americans to Support Israel Committee was "Arab oil prices have had a disastrous effect upon blacks in America and in Africa." I don't think many were thinking about the issue on that level.

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