WORLDVIEW: Methinks the DA doth protest too much
Reading the impassioned piece penned by the Institute for Race Relations' Frans Cronjé – which is worth reading, by the way – it's clear that Cronjé and the IRR are not impressed by the media coverage of the DA leadership changes.
Some of the points he raises are fair enough. Others are, I think, a little disingenuous. For example, Cronjé argues that there has been no exodus of black leaders from the DA because, "In total, five DA leaders resigned from the party, of whom two were black."
To me, his argument – essentially, that the DA has no black exodus because 60% of the leaders who left were white – just serves to highlight the lack of black leadership at the top levels of the DA, which is the point most commentators are making when they talk about the black exodus.
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