2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Can you imagine if BLMers were physically forced out when disrupting Bernie Sanders? [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)try this sort of "don't be liberal, it's very WHITE"
Andy Young was hired by WalMart's "Voices of Color" and horrified everyone when he praised big boxes for driving out mom-and-pops because those were usually filthy Koreans or whatever; the "60s generation" of AA leaders immediately denounced him
the Florida NAACP was bought out by ALEC and insisted that solar panels would benefit Whites at Blacks' expense: everyone recoiled
Cheviot Hills and Westside LA explicitly told the City Council they don't want dark-skinned people taking the Expo Line to their enclave; so they fund Damien Goodmon to tell the Council that surface rail "kills Black kids!!!!11111" and sues Metro the day after the yearlong public-comment period closes, starting four years of suspiciously well-heeled barratry; the line opens in 2012 and he admits that all the changes he'd asked for were unnecessary and basically just to gum up the project because he wants to raise his profile as a "community leader"
so I'm curious why some racial smears stick and others don't