Marina Gomberg: America’s bias runs deep, and these groundbreakers still made history

Elections have a special way of putting our values on display. In some ways, they’re like magnified parades of our nation’s character (wave to the $15 minimum wage float from Florida, oh and there’s the Utah contingent who banned slavery in the state’s constitution!). In some ways the exposure is more comfortable than others.It’s as stunning to me when elections illuminate what matters to us as it is when they uncover what doesn’t. The latter is excruciating,