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It is the degree to which black people have been systemically denied,

opportunities that other people can take for granted.

And as long as we deny, the lethal limits that are imposed upon black American folk or black folk more broadly,

as a result of the very identities we speak about,

then those identities have to be taken into account.

If your visceral sense of what voting is supposed to be about is sticking your thumb down against white hegemony,

it can distract us from, frankly, the less theatrical sorts of things that really can make a massive difference.

I think that it makes us not have as much imagination as we might always have in trying to make black lives better.

Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared.

I'm your debate host and referee, John Don Van, and today I am asking this question,

is the appeal to identity politics a way to win elections?

Does such a focus serve beneficially to organize and mobilize citizens whose interests and very presence

in politics tends to get marginalized?

Or does it miss the point that each voter is an individual and membership in a group is but one,

and not always the most important consideration in who that person will vote for?

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