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When I was in high school, my best friend was black. (And Originally from Baltimore) I quickly learned that he was hypersensitive about anything which can be construed to be an issue of race, and he literally looked for racism everywhere.

When we would go to a restaurant, he would take it as a sign of racism if he was served last, or if he wasn't asked what he wanted to eat first. If he got a ticket, it was because he was "driving while black". He would weigh every word that anyone said looking for a hidden racist significance in it, and he would often find things that he could interpret as "racist."

I later learned that there were a lot of other people who behaved this way, (not all by any means, I've had many friends that never behaved like this) and so I am no longer surprised when I see it manifested elsewhere.

I think Channing Dungey is manifesting this same behavior in regards to this tweet by Roseanne.