The Importance of Race in Identity Politics

Cornell West is currently running for president on the Green Party ticket. He's long been a left-wing academic at institutions like Dartmouth and I believe he's at Cornell now. Judith Butler out of nowhere decided to complain that the panel did not have any women of color on it. She said we ought to have a woman of color on the panel that would have changed the nature of the discussion because it would have brought in perspectives otherwise lacking.