If blacks and white liberals think that “thug” refers to black people, then what they are proving is that they think black people are thugs.
There has been no shortage of non-black people who have been properly called “thugs”:
Like every Italian mafioso.
And Polish contract hit man for the Mafia, Richard “Iceman” Kuklinksi?
And every Jewish gangster (anyone ever heard of Bugsy Siegel, or “Murder, Inc.”)
Then there’s the Yakuza.
And all the members of the Mexican Mafia. And the various drug cartels.
And check out the British Kray Brothers.
So tell me why it is that black and white leftists insist on thinking that all thugs are black?
Don’t forget the original Thugs: members of the secret cult of Kali, called “Thuggee”.
They were Indian.
And they were called ‘thugs’.