Democratic Pot Luck Debates

Democratic Pot Luck Debates

A few years back, it fell to me to arrange the seating at a donor appreciation dinner for which there would be four tables of eight.  Taking the guest list, I split the couples and assigned places, keeping an eye on having one half of each couple at the table for the guest of honor, for whom the donations had been gathered.  

There was the luxury of the dinner not being exclusively gay, which always makes placement more challenging.  But having a mixture of same sex and opposite sex couples allowed for more diversity at each table than a bunch of gay guys with one straight and one lesbian couple thrown into the mix.  Not unexpectedly, the guests were disproportionately white, so I placed the persons of color with the most visibility possible and lamented to myself that a gathering of progressives would even have this issue.

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