Good to read.  the people in power still mostly look white and present as male, often Ivy League educated.  Ms Cross writes thoughtfully about voting and the role of media.      She talks about watercooler conversations that quoted American Pie, Revenge of the Nerds, Something about Mary while she would have quoted Do the Right Thing, Coming to America, Friday.   "How had their experiences shaped their view of what was newsworthy and what was not?"   mentions sorority hooting and Al Green, because the presenters are ignorant.
She lays out voter suppression and the disappointments of policies and laws.  "what Black American patriotism looks like.  Itʼs a complicated sentiment interwoven with pride, sadness, battle scars, determination, heartache, community, fury, love, and righteous anger." 
She knows her stuff:  "I have found that both Democratic and Republican candidates make appeals specific to Black folks only when theʼyʼre very unlikiely to be viewed by white voters."
Glad I read it, happy to see her as guest host on The Reidout, and provoked to listen more closely to the "chattering class".