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The racist heart of PUMA politics

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Carl Beijer
Oct 27, 2015
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It’s surreal to recall just how twisted the racism of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 PUMAs actually was. Consider, for example, their odious insistance that Barack Obama could only win the election as an affirmative action president. On one level, this was just standard-issue right-wing colorblindism, directly at odds with the foundational progressive position …

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