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So, y'all might hate me for this, but for months now I have been unable to muster the will to crack open "Becoming." I just could not generate anything other than agnosticism about it. This brilliant essay by @KeeangaYamahtta offers confirmation. bostonreview.net/race/keeanga-y… 
I was just talking to @DamonYoungVSB about this last night before his book talk. Michelle, as much as Barack, is at her heart a bootstrapper who acknowledges some abstract notion of structural racism but believes black people are largely responsible for their own circumstances.
They have a tremendous amount of power that they've largely chosen to wield in a way that maintains our hierarchies.
And this line, whew: "Social change is thus based on the goodwill and interests of well-endowed funders and well-meaning individuals while inequality is essentially accepted as something to navigate rather than dismantle." Yes.
(By the way, I was saying this to Damon... so don't hate in his mentions)
