The responses that I heard form the audience really don’t jive with that explanation in my mind.
I know that I am coming late to the game, but while I was reading the thread, your comment elicited precisely the point I made on a prior thread; i.e., not many of us have sat through a Black church service.
Some of my favorite preachers are Blacks. They really get the crowd into it. The interaction between the preacher and the congregation is different than in most white churches. When the Black preacher is talking about how bad the bad person is in the story, the crowd is just warming up. They will chime in with "preach it" and "amen" and other accolades intended to affirm the preacher, NOT the evil person being depicted.
Given that she had prefaced her story with verbiage explaining the coming "parable"; albeit true, I can certainly believe that the crowd is cheering her story, but not her confessed racism.
I don’t know, watchman, certainly I have never been to one. What makes me suspicious in this case is that the NAACP is not known for its anti-racism, I mean, not even a little bit.
That is how I took it. They gave approving sentiments for several points denouncing racism so it makes little sense that they were approving of it at other junctures.