Frankly, if you don’t deal with the issues how can you understand what the race means? I is galling to have one’s concerns shuttled aside for “important things” like media schedules.

Some people are surprised when I declare (as I occasionally do) that I detest politics, that I’d rather be doing almost anything else. So be it: we all do a lot of things we don’t like, because we feel we must do those things. For me, politics is an unavoidable component of activism, and as Alice Walker wisely noted, “Activism is my rent for living on this planet.”