BuzzFeed - The RNC picks fights with liberal media over race, while Rand Paul talks policy with black Democrats. But mixed signals continue. John Gara On the morning of March 27, Jamilah Lemieux, a senior editor at the prominent African-American magazine Ebony, was snarking on Twitter about a new publication aimed at black conservatives, when a young Republican National Committee staffer named Raffi Williams decided to challenge her, tweeting that he was disappointed she seemed averse to "diversity of thought." Lemieux responded to the criticism sharply: Her reply was both combative and inaccurate â Williams, she would soon learn, is in fact black â and it set off a brief Twitter tussle, with followers crowding around the spectacle and cheering on their respective sides as the two exchanged barbs. View Entire List âº
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