So there was no white privilege for Tabatha (who ever Tabatha is) in “a predominantly white town” then?
Racial attitudes have to be viewed in the context of the era. This modern attempt to put the long deceased on trial for racism can never end. By today’s standard, the name Lincoln should be expunged from the public record and his memorial torn down. This is just one of Lincoln’s statements on race made in the Lincoln-Douglas debates:
“I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause] ... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be a position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”