“Increasingly folks who are in favor of the Obama center have stood up at meetings and sent out emails saying anyone who disagrees or asks questions — they must be white, they must not care about black people and they must not care about economic development on the South Side,” said Irizarry, who is Hispanic. “It’s not neatly broken down by black and white or neatly broken down by class. To make it all about race is inappropriate — that’s not what Obama stood for. There needs to be more nuance.”