“Jesus,” Greenlee had said, remembering for Williams the night he’d lost his future. “If I, if I thought a white woman had been raped within a hundred miles of [Groveland] and Negroes were suspected, I would have opened the door and left.”
Seems like a lot of white rapists were getting away with their crimes. But, really, isn’t that what purpose of black oppression was? To protect white criminals from being punished?