John A.
I don’t want to treat anybody rudely, just as I don’t like being treatd rudely. But let’s face it, there has to be a way to deal with people who treat us like filth other than to respond in an obsequious manner. I don’t believe in using violence, and I have never attacked anybody. I certainly don’t walk around hoping to assault the first African-American male who looks at me askance. In truth, I am far more guilty of backing down on those few occasions when poorly treated by a black person than of overreacting to such outrageous behavior with anything remotely resembling verbal or physical assault. I simply maintain that there is a small core of African Americans who see the average white man as weak and unmanly, and in dealing with such people, politeness just isn’t the way to go: What is the proper response? I honestly don’t know.