The fact is that Mia Love is brilliant conservative candidate and she is black. Black counts. To discount that fact is to negate political reality.
She is from Utah. In Utah her blackness is not as prominent as it would be in say Philadelphia because she does not have a significant black constituency.
By extension, she is young and loud and articulate. She is a wonderful example for black women. He blackness can allow her conservative message to penetrate far beyond her Utah home
The adage “if you’ve got it, flaunt it” comes to mind
Mia Love does NOT WANT to be flaunted.
I respect that.
I wish more did and would stop using her race to pander to the folk.
It is the soft bigotry of gushing over someone who does not fit stereotypes- including our own. When black stops “counting”, then we will have broken the racial barrier. That is what Mia Love is telling us. Listen to her.