It is a challenge for each of us, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, to go outside our comfort zone and reach out to someone "different" from ourselves (though I've done it my whole life).
Not having to buy health insurance may give some false comfort that this is one less bill you have to pay, but what happens when someone in the family gets very sick?
At least Ms Swinson has the comfort of knowing that - if she wins again at the next election - it should be someone else's job to wear the T-shirt of anti-tokenism.
At some point in life it is important to get out of your own comfort zone, the things you are familiar with, and to see something new through the eyes of someone else.