It sometimes seems that the most intense hope of some people in this country is that the nation will soon experience some really, truly grievous racial incident, some horror of horrors.

That will enable them to say that, yes, things may have improved a smidgen since slavery, lynchings and segregation, but just a smidgen. Underneath the pretense of vast betterment, they will then triumphantly declare, is seething white vileness.

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