But there was so much that had to be implied because that paper is published in Butler County, land of the myopic and home of the segregated. Here at CityBeat , however, I decided to take things up a notch. Being a basketball fan, I call it giving readers the head fake. Reading our city's two dailies, you'd never know how anybody really feels about alleged police misconduct, Asian groceries and nail shops thriving only in black neighborhoods, suspected hotel price gouging during the Coors Light Festival and on and on. That's where I come in.
White people can be so helpful without even realizing it.
I recall it was something she could have figured out for herself except that she's lived an admittedly sheltered life. It got a big laugh. It gets tread upon ever so lightly, if at all. We know what happens because of it and how we feel about it, but few of us ever really want to get our hands dirty dealing with the minutiae that comprise it. That doesn't mean that whitey is evil and all blacks are put upon and disenfranchised.