Courtney Martin says it's easy to point fingers and call out conservative racism, but the progressive community has a long way to go, too.
It's not just Tea Partiers who are the problem here. A report released this summer by the Leadership Learning Community, a national nonprofit that focuses on leadership development, calls into question the stale commitment to diversity of so many progressive Americans. How to Develop and Support Leadership that Contributes to Racial Justice, co-authored by a group of the country's most cutting-edge thinkers on race and leadership, very politely points out that the left shouldn't be so quick to point fingers.
