Truth? You want the truth? Because it's easy. Because it's neat. Because it's what we always did (and by "we," I mean my family, my father's ancestors who were slaves on SC rice plantations, and on and on). We did it because we had to to get by. And this man knows it hasn't changed. Nobody wants to have the messy conversation. Nobody wants to disrupt the status quo.

Lord I wish I'd have been at that game with him, because although I am not white (I'm mixed race, my father was Black, my mother was white), I look mighty white (I'm whiter than actual white people) and Babz and me, well, she'd have been sitting quietly in her seat and wouldn't nobody say a thing about it because they'd never know. ;)