Yeah, but they were doing that precisely because he wasn't white.
They're pretending he was white, because of an incorrect belief among the population that minorities aren't racist. The opposite is the case. Whites are the least racist people.
Dude my family is from Memphis the mailman was the "the nigger that delivered mail." And they still didn't think about him or themselves as a racial collective.
Yeah, but they were doing that precisely because he wasn't white.
They're pretending he was white, because of an incorrect belief among the population that minorities aren't racist. The opposite is the case. Whites are the least racist people.
I don't know if we are less racist, we are definitely less race conscious than most.
I can assure you that you've never had dinner with an educated white just casually calling a black a 'chimpanzee'.
Dude my family is from Memphis the mailman was the "the nigger that delivered mail." And they still didn't think about him or themselves as a racial collective.