All those white people had to do was politely move their pontoon boat from a slip they were trespassing on. But no. A small group of white people thought they were better than the hundreds of Black people on a Riverboat returning to their boat slip from a cruise. Yes, I cheered when that white woman got hit with a folding chair. Yes, I jumped up and down when that white man got body slammed on his ass and stomped after bum-rushing a 60-year-old Black man who was just doing his job on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.
These kinds of rabid racist white folks aren’t just in Alabama. Black people have to deal with this shit from the cradle to the grave. When I was a little girl growing up in Northern Virginia,
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