"...all of the black people shuffle their feet and stare down at the sidewalk when white people walk by."
So, I'm "white" I guess, or at least most of my people came from Europe. The other day I noticed something new, and I'll bet it has become pretty common: nowadays whenever I meet someone who has more melanin than I do, in the back of my mind I wonder if they hate me. It's as if I've been transported back to mindset of a negro in the Jim Crow south, except the shoe is on the other foot. I doubt if that's the desired result of all the fuss about white privilege and so forth, and I doubt if it's going to end well, but that's where we are.
"...all of the black people shuffle their feet and stare down at the sidewalk when white people walk by."
So, I'm "white" I guess, or at least most of my people came from Europe. The other day I noticed something new, and I'll bet it has become pretty common: nowadays whenever I meet someone who has more melanin than I do, in the back of my mind I wonder if they hate me. It's as if I've been transported back to mindset of a negro in the Jim Crow south, except the shoe is on the other foot. I doubt if that's the desired result of all the fuss about white privilege and so forth, and I doubt if it's going to end well, but that's where we are.