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Like, for instance, the current outbreak of racial concern trolling among right-wing media stars that’s begun to trickle down to its base. This particular meme spiked recently with the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, which the right used largely as an excuse to chastise black America’s inability to live up to the example that Martin Luther King (now retconned to be an arch-conservative) set for them, but its bread and butter is rap music.
This may be tough for whites to hear, but as Scott’s letter proved, sometimes people of a certain race aren’t even aware of the trouble that they’re causing themselves by total nonissues that completely skirt the actual problems that they face in a virulently racist society, and that they need those nonissues patiently and condescendingly explained to them by a person of another race. Even if that person of another race is just a construct in another white person’s mind.
