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So, if matters had been different -- if one day in the distant future, American society collapses into anarchy and is replaced by warring city states run by an ever-changing army of warlords, without ever having elected a black president -- would that mean that we wouldn't know whether America was really a democracy?
That's the metric upon which we judge our political system? Whether a not the people will vote in sufficient numbers to put a person with differently-colored skin in charge?
I think all it proves is that everybody who says that race doesn't exist can shut up now (though I wonder whom they voted for...).
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