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Please help me understand where you stand regarding Ms. Delgado. Her rejection of identification based on the nebulous concept of race is spot-on, be it self-inflicted or imposed by others. But she imposes another ideology, draconian, suffering no dissent. Actually, now that I think on it, she's not much different from Graham Chapman in the Life of Brian. Telling everybody to think for themselves as everybody echoes back: "we must think for ourselves."

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Spot on. Carmen is nuanced and complex. She perceives herself as a Joan of Arc with crusader zeal. And as she achieves her aims and transforms society, there are knock off effects. Public discourse is cleansed in a, dare I say, North Korean kind of way. Who are the evil forces waiting in the wings for Carmen? Who is Aaron Burr to Carmen Delgado? We root for Carmen even as we know she is flawed over time. I love troubled characters on a mission. That's life.

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