The Role of Racism in Left-Wing Critique of the Ruling Political Economic Order

I don't understand why people get angry because a white woman wore her hair and cornrows or who got angry at the novelist who gave a talk wearing a sombrero. I call it adolescent behavior by people who can't think of anything more important to do. C. Van Woodward has a moment in his classic origins of the new south uh where he's talking about the publicity about poor white people in the south. He says they're often marketed to would be investors from outside because they're not a meanable group. But if you turn that into an issue having to do with the identities of people of color then you have let the agribusiness farmers off the hook according to him