Some days I'm proud to be an American

Barack Obama made me feel genuinely proud to be an American for the first time in my life. Hillary makes me feel the same. While I don't support either of them BECAUSE of their identities, our overlapping core identifiers do help me to  feel empowered and like I have a place at the American table. Our next step as a nation is an intellectual investment in intersectionality. We currently hear much more about it in our media than in our politics. We bring our identities into all we do, we may as well acknowledge them!