The Election—III

The Election—III: Darryl Pinckney, David Bromwich, and Kwame Anthony Appiah

Mother Jones
A still from a video of Mitt Romney talking to wealthy donors at a fund-raiser in Boca Raton, Florida, May 17, 2012

Darryl Pinckney

Mitt Romney admitted to the new social truth in America when he remarked that had his parents been Mexican he’d have a better shot at the presidency. That the United States is a changed country, demographically, from the one that white men of Romney’s generation grew up in became manifest in the last presidential election and will do so again.
Republicans who argue that the Hispanic ...