One benefit of this primary campaign: have black women voters ever been this thoroughly fought over? Maya Angelou has famously endorsed Clinton. Now Alice Walker backs the "real" and "complex" Obama. I can't believe I find myself agreeing with Walker. But I guess times change. And I think our world-historical challenges demand thinking outside our existing categories:
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