What keeps this going is White Guilt - that underpins the prevailing white liberal attitude towards race in this country combined with loathing for America. Katrina Browne's views are axiomatic in that respect. Here's where Shelby Steele's new book digs that up. In a sense white liberals and the race hucksters feed off each other. Its a parasistical relationship that's strengthened their mutual power but been disastrous both to the harmony of society's relations as well as to the state of the black community. Advancing a racial grievance is a sure-fire way of ensuring it will never be addressed. Which I think for the Left, is precisely the point. Besides, when they have speakers named after a hurricane, I think there's a measure of feliticious irony involved, to which as usual, liberals are completely oblivious.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)