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With apologies to Arlo Guthry, "You can find anything you want, at your Twitter account".

https://twitter.com/shoveitjack/status/1674511330252931072/photo/1

The ladies who piled on are not quite my vintage but old enough that I would think they have experienced racism far beyond the idiotic, but common, racism of low expectations expressed in the link I shared above, at least years ago. That is the part that I find disappointing. They are old enough to have seen the improvement with their own eyes and experience.

Is it a matter of best is the enemy of better, or a desire to participate in the victim Olympics? I don't know and don't assume. I understand impatience even when it is an unrealistic demand. But justifying the pessimism while it may seem valid, does not address the issue that you were writing about. The damage done by that negativity. That was ignored.

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