I work at a very small business. For about a year our office manager was a black lady. One day she came in just infuriated. She’d had a run-in with the city about an issue to do with her yard’s boundary line, and she just automatically assumed they were being difficult because she was black.
That many other people, white, brown and green had similar problems with bureaucracies didn’t matter. The only possible reason, to her mind, for the problem was racism.
I was told by a black man who worked on our ranch that he and all the other kids were taught “the (white) man ain’t gonna let you be anything or do anything, so you might as well just not try”. Sad.
I knew a white woman who was similar. Whenever a bus driver was rude or a salesclerk was funky, if they were black, she’d tell me about it huffily and say it was because she was white.
I tried to tell her, hey, maybe they were just rude, or incompetent. She never wanted to hear it.
It is so difficult to get a chip off of a shoulder. You couldn’t convince her it was anything but racial.