in which I discover that I have been profoundly mistaken

[lolaraincoat]

I lost a big bet to twotoedsloth just about eight years ago. Some years before that, I had predicted that the PRI would never allow itself to lose a presidential election in Mexico - certainly not in my lifetime. I believed that the historical patterns that held them in place were just too powerful to be overcome. Two Toes thought otherwise and we put a

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[fledgist]

At the end of the spring semester, I was wrapping up a class in political theory that I was teaching (not in my normal role, but as an adjunct) at a neighbouring institution to my own (which is the only college in the United States dedicated to the education of black women), I was pointed out to the students that they would be the movers and shakers of the country in twenty years time. One asked me 'do you notice what colour we are?' I said, 'this year we have a fair chance that either an African-American man or a white woman could be president and you're hung up on your colour?' (I could have asked 'What colour am I