Given the governor's poor record on race relations, the caller said, the task force was a sham. I will try to persuade you of two things. The first is that the governor is sincere in wanting to improve race relations. He certainly has nothing to gain by pandering to the left. Quite obviously, he has few friends there.
Prophesies have a way of being self-fulfilling, and surely nobody wants that.
That critics bother to respond at all springs from the hope that their concerns might reach the governor and be considered before he selects the remaining task force members. Activists with experience in race relations feel they have something valuable to bring to the table. To ignore their expertise is to invite failure. That the governor already has generated hard feelings bodes ill for the task force. What has been presented as an effort to foster unity and respect diversity has, so far, been divisive and exclusive.