Their fear kept them from engaging with the substance of the issues-racial justice, mass incarceration, human rights-until this year. They were afraid this would appear political or partisan, although of course human rights are not a partisan issue, unless you have a party that believes that people outside their party shouldn’t be treated as equals or aren’t fully human. When you looked at the reasons they gave over the years for not doing it-too complicated, potential antitrust concerns, and what have you-you could tell they were looking for excuses. I think it took such a long time because AIA was scared of it.
