It is not unlike liberal whites in America who will speak up for, that is, recognize, African Americans and feel very kind and noble in doing so. But their kindness is constituted and would have no reality or appearance of virtue but for the very system and circumstance that necessitated it. The appearance of virtue in the act is predicated on the very evil it purports to challenge. The moral fault line of this posture is betrayed in how angry, resentful, and even disillusioned so-called liberals have become when African Americans have historically attempted to speak for themselves, to tell
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