PROGRESSIVES AGAINST EFFECTIVE PROGRESSIVE LEADERHSIP

Here's a question to which I haven't seen an answer at from the band of lefties mourning the defeats of Hilliard and McKinney.

If you support active governmental steps to reduce racial inequality in America (equalization of educational funding, subsidization of job growth in the inner city, welfare reform that takes job training as seriously as paring the numbers of the rolls); and in order for any of these steps to be taken, black politicians have to build coalitions that reach beyond their own constiuency:


How on earth can it be a bad thing for alienating radicals to be replaced with leaders who are far better at building these essential coalitions?