Mainstream civil rights groups deliberately avoided CeCe McDonald’s case as politically unsafe

Evidence

When CeCe McDonald, a black trans woman, was incarcerated for defending herself during a racist, transphobic attack and revictimized by being sent to a male prison, traditional civil rights organizations were purposefully silent. It was clear, according to Carruthers, that the state had failed McDonald, but the leadership of these organizations was afraid to touch the case, because McDonald did not fit their vision of black people. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 634

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying the specifics of the CeCe McDonald case and which organizations stayed silent—a concrete example that could anchor an essay.
• SEED: Angle: how a narrow ‘respectable blackness’ standard determines which injustices mainstream organizations will publicly recognize.