She didn't say "white liberal." I did, as you can see. But that's probably who she meant. Even if it isn't, that's who is wishing blacks would bring back the days where we black folks sat at Woolworth counters and let the more virulent version of white racist pour milkshakes on our heads and spit on us without reacting.
Those days are done.
In the 1950s and 1960s black people were pretending to believe that white adults were animalistic children that didn't know any better. Now we can't pretend anymore. We literally cannot. Television and the internet have been out and available in most American homes for decades. All the information one might need to know that other races are just as human as white folks is out there for the reading.
Therefore, a black teenager or young adult will turn around and tell a white person about himself in no uncertain terms if a he, as a white person, gets too uppity. And if a white person lays hands on a black person, she is going to catch hands --probably in the facial region.
Life is not fair. I don't expect it to be. But this time out all the peacefulness is going to be on the white side of this racial equation.
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