“Judging presidential candidates against one another isn’t always useful. The approach works for people who limit their consciousness to the workmanlike sensibilities of civic obligation, but it can erase the dynamism of domestic and international liberation struggles, which necessarily supersede the minuscule dimensions of electoral provincialism. If presidential candidates are to discuss Blacks and Palestinians, in other words, then Blackness and decolonization, not the predictable tableau of electoral posturing, should provide the context.”

Nailed.