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Bell connects that failure to a more general claim about "interest convergence".
We have already seen this interest convergence at work in the context of same-sex marriage.
Understandably, civil rights advocates and criminal justice reformers are celebrating this moment of what Professor Bell calls "interest convergence".
"Interest convergence" motivated only the abolition of de-jure segregation; the nation, in Bell's view, had no larger appetite for racial justice.
If we fail to rise to the challenge, and push past the politics of momentary interest convergence, future generations will judge us harshly.
In the context of race, the legal scholar Derrick Bell has argued for this "interest convergence" thesis, noting that the African-American civil rights movement took off only when whites discovered an independent interest in it.
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But interest-convergence sometimes requires setting aside bigotry.
Convergence time: Another factor of interest is convergence time, which is the time for cooperative wireless mesh routers to detect and throttle selfish or malicious wireless mesh routers completely.
Welcome to what could be called "GGIRC," the great global interest rate convergence -- whereby interest rates steadily converge to zero in many countries around the world, both advanced (other than the crisis European economies) and emerging (other than the persistent financial basket cases).
Interest rate convergence is also a long shot.
Europe's stock markets performed relatively well in 1998, as interest rate convergence drove markets higher.
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