In reading the thread, it sounds like he was a young skull-full-of-mush, the kind the Left grooms and nurtures when he was 15. I give him a pass on that.
Heck, Thomas Sowell was a self-professed Marxist until he gained life experience and saw the light.
I think most young people are susceptible to Leftism, simply because it is an emotionally based childish ideology not based in logic or reality, which most (but not all) young people, lacking life experience, are vulnerable to.
So I give him a pass on that.
I assume every black person hired by the media is an Affirmative Action hire because that is the curse of Affirmative Action, and that is the way the media (and business) operate now. That doesn’t mean that black person won’t have talent or won’t succeed.
It just means they have to wear that albatross around their neck (because it is what they undeniably are from the hiring perspective) until they prove otherwise. And that is the double-edged sword of Affirmative Action.
If they need to check the “black” box that badly, why not check the “woman” box too and hire Candace Owens?