Tom, you asked a number of questions. They appear, with my answers, below:

“What’s your assessment of how much or how little the President has done with his appointments, in terms of having a racially diverse cabinet?”

“Racially diverse” is not a term I use. I don’t because, in my opinion, *race* is *white supremacy*. It equals it. It has no other expression. (There’s no such thing as “Black racism,” or “Chinese racism.”

When we say “race,” what we’re really talking about, I hold, is the agglomeration of products and side effects produced and or countenanced, directly and/or indirectly, by white supremacy. Because of this, to me, terms like “racially diverse,” or, for example, “biracial.” are meaningless.

In response to your question, in short, I would say I think that President Obama has selected the cabinet that will a) most ably accomplish the needed tasks the country faces, and b) most directly convey that intent to the electorate.

Clearly, in both cases, what does this is dominated by race.

“Do you think he should strongly consider race with his appointments and nominees, or be totally color blind, or something in between?”

Based on what I think he’s trying to do, I think he should continue to consider race in all that he does, as he *has* done, just like Black people tend to do, even when they don’t think that they are doing so.

“Do you think you would or should do the same, if you found yourself in that position?”

I don’t think a person who believes, as I do, that racism has a sole functional form, namely white supremacy, and who voices such an opinion, could be elected to the office of President of the United States.

Should by some miracle, however, I be found in the Oval Office as commander-in-chief, I would probably seek to do what has been done in his case: Try out smart, untried, non-white people, though not exclusively.

I would do this not only to accomplish needed work, but to develop the body of expertise in non-white people that is needed if racism is ever to be abated and killed.

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