When I see black folks talking about how much that girl deserved to be assaulted and slammed to the ground because "these kids have no respect," all I can think of is an aging field woman nursing the wounds of her young daughter. She's applying various remedies and dressings to her daughter's bloodied open back after the young girl was tied to a tree and publicly flogged by her white master. And, as the woman whispers the name of Jesus and doctors on the body of her frail child, she offers no words of comfort other than one thought which absolves the white man of guilt and lays it all at the feet of the broken girl - "See there...I done told you 'bout sassin' him."
That's what y'all sound like.
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