Been waiting for this comment...about how black people "like me" do not appreciate all the wonderful "progress" America has made in "race relations."

But, rather than give you my views on this matter, Tim Wise provides a much better response than I ever could. Here's a snippet of what he just published:

"But beyond the internal inconsistency of conservative thinking, there is also the toxic positivity of their narrative that should concern us. To the right, Black folks need to stop complaining about racism. Sure there are individual racists, but racism as an institutional force is dead. What matters, they insist, is progress; thus, we should judge ourselves not in relation to the national ideal as symbolized by our pledge of liberty and justice for all, but only compared to where we were 60 or 160 years ago. But this is a bad faith argument on their part, and I suspect they know it."

I suggest you read the whole piece...and then THINK before you unloose your ad hominen attacks against me (or anyone else). It's at https://timjwise.medium.com/dont-worry-be-happy-4b9d48434a8c