I’d disagree. I think you’re suggesting that if someone supports a good cause/movement that has negatives (virtually everything does) than they must undoubtedly endorse the negatives of those organizations. BLM has many many faults, but it also has some fundamental goods. There was a cool insight by Locke onto Ryan’s family helping racial causes in the 50s/70s and taking lots of heat for it. I think his position comes from both familial experience and a genuine desire to do good.
In regards to his exclusion of kids for scholarship funds based on their skin color, I understand what you’re saying. I think you’ve got to look at it as he’s trying to help one group, but that doesn’t equate to him damaging another group. If I help any one individual person, I’m not simultaneously hurting other people ya know? To say Smith is pandering is an assumption. Frankly the dudes political involvement seems to cover both parties which we should all be able to appreciate since neither is perfect. Smith seems like a good dude, runs a great company (my bro is a long time employee), serves his community, serves a lot in his church, and genuinely appears by all actions and accounts to be trying to leave the world a better place than he found it. You can question how he measures or accomplishes that based off of your political ideology, but you can’t question that this is a man whose put a lot of effort into achieving what he thinks is the proper way to improve the world.