Your somewhat cogent points about Harriot and his “shitty echo chamber”—aka a much-needed space for black folks to vent—lost me the very first syllable in which you try to push the deaf, dumb, blind and false equivalency between your Soviet-era and decidedly white immigrant experience and that of African-Americans. The…

Might you be as pissed off if Buttigieg instead “exploited” the controversy and made a national speech or “apology tour” directly addressing the black community and “ignored” this 0ne lone black writer on this black website? Damned if he does, fucked if he doesn’t, no?

After reading Michael Harriot’s first article on Mayor Pete—“Pete Buttigieg Is a Lying MF”—I was struck by the author’s hermeneutical prowess.