I do not remember the exact details, but the gist of it was that there was a demonstration of skinheads, or some other group with a racially hostile agenda. A much larger group of counter demonstrators attacked the skinheads. It was a young African American woman who threw herself into the fray to protect the skinhead who was being attacked by the angry anti-skinhead protestors. An African American woman protected her racial enemy's safety. This is the kind of heroic stretching that race relations can require of us.
Race is a difficult subject to preach about.
Even those of us with white skin who do not deal with humiliation and fear of racial attack, get to a point of being exhausted by the topic. Yes, there has been progress, economic progress. Since the 1970s, however, blacks have made only small gains relative to whites. Often we are tempted to think that minority poverty is the only remaining racial issue. But racism of a deeper kind is proving to be very persistent.