[Iron Munro]

"I just looked at her and said “you aren't that special.”

That sums it up perfectly.

Do you think a big part of the problem might be that some blacks resent the fact they are no longer Priority #1?

My personal feeling is that most of the time, most of America has moved beyond race and that many blacks are unhappy about it.

Racism is no longer Center Ring and they yearn for their good old days when they felt relevant.
Once the mere accusation of racism was breath stopping.
Now it is a tired old joke that everyone has heard far too many times and the purveyors of racial animosity are now an irrelevancy.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Do you think a big part of the problem might be that some blacks resent the fact they are no longer Priority #1?"

I think that is a HUGE part of the problem with the NAACP types. They spent the first half of their lives striving for racial equality when doing so could be hazardous to your health. It was probably an exhilarating time, something like combat, with a special "rush." I think they became addicted to that rush, and now that their efforts have largely been successful, they don't know what to do with themselves. So every little racially-tinged incident becomes magnified and blown out of proportion, so they can puff themselves up again and pretend that nothing has changed, and that they are still needed.