To your excellent point, Joe my FRiend, I'm Caucasian. I've had many wonderful black friends and acquaintances throughout my 71 years on this fine planet, and not one of them had a constant fear of anything of the sort (I suspect that they would have told me.)
You are correct when you describe things as "getting more silly by the minute", and if I might suggest, more hysterical.
More hysterical and hilarious.
Did you see Nancy Pelosi, Schumer and the rest of them in their totally laughable pandering when they took the knee for 8 minutes in their African kente cloth?
I couldn't stop laughing. Especially when ole Pelosi couldn't get up after that stunt. Someone had to help her up. You gotta be careful about making such acrobatic moves when you are that age.
I should know. Like you, I am an old geezer too.
Beauty of all this? Just a week ago, the Dems were going crazy accusing President Trump of pulling a photo op when he took a Bible to Saint John's Church in front of the White House.