Yeah you do. It's part of the Code of the Left.
They don't hate Pickering because he's racist. He isn't, and everyone knows it. They hate him because he's a conservative. They could at least be honest about it.
It wouldn't hurt once in a while for the people to ask non-political blacks their opinions, instead of constantly getting the input from the black "leadership" that functions as little more than an appendage of the Democratic Party.