[PapaBear3625]

No, it’s just one of the cracks. And if you go back a decade or so, you can see that every year, every month, every week, the rate of new cracks is exponentially increasing. If I had to give it a starting point it would be Rodney King and the technology that made him infamous.

You're correct. It's just one more straw.

The "knockout game". The Philadelphia Black Panthers intimidating voters with impunity. The thousands of black-on-white rapes, assaults, and murders every year.

Little by little, black-on-white victimization is eroding the good will of white people, that good will which caused the passing of all that equal-rights, anti-discrimination legislation since the Civil War. And when that good will is all gone ...

[Oliviaforever]

“Little by little, black-on-white victimization is eroding the good will of white people, that good will which caused the passing of all that equal-rights, anti-discrimination legislation since the Civil War. And when that good will is all gone ...”

I have never quite heard someone state that the Civil Rights Acts were passed as a result of good will among white folks.