If you listened to Republican Mia Love tell it back in 2012, you would have remembered that she vowed to "dismantle" the Congressional Black Caucus. Mia said that she believed that the Caucus was "demagoguery" and that the members "sit there and ignite emotions and ignite racism when there isn't."

by Kinsey Clarke
Not all of our skinfolk are our kinfolk. - Zora Neale Hurston

In light of the election of black Congresswoman Mia Love, I’d first like to say that I was raised a Black Conservative. I’ve written on this before, and my experiences growing up with parents who were heavily influenced by right-wing politics made me blind to race and gender; and how both of those things intersect in America. As I’ve grown and left behind those ideas, I can see how wrong the erasure of my identity as a Black woman is; and how it ultimately served to negate the relevance of my experiences as a Black woman as they relate to politics.

Last night, Utah Republican Mia Love made history with a narrowly won election to a House seat, becoming the first black woman to represent the Republican Party in Congress.