re: #63 Barefoot Grin

“I know. Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that anymore. They got more rights than we got.”

And that’s what’s got them so mad. Not that Black people actually have more rights than white people do, but that whites perceive that Black people have more rights than they do. We can talk to them until we’re blue in the face about equity vs. equality, the cumulative effects of historical suppression, etc., but as long as they think they’re at an actual disadvantage, they’ll never care about any of it. They have to be the most important man on the totem pole.