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Man am I late to this happy gathering. I’ll respond to the original post.
Your perceived injustice is nothing more than perceived in my opinion. I think the undertone of your OP was: where is the line drawn between racism and someone having delicate sensibilities? I’ll try to respond to that as best as I can. I don’t know where to draw the line but not in this case is what I come up with. I can’t rightly tell whether or not this family meant anything racist by what they did. From the facts I’d assume not. In the end though, this isn’t the main issue. The matter comes down to how the gesture was perceived. You can have racism that is a subtle dig, and why should people be subjected to it? Taking it down probably was a good idea. While it is no one’s job to appease delicate sensibilities everywhere, there is such a thing as a dignified response. If someone told me they were offended by something I was doing, that does not in any way define me, I would work to change that behavior if said behavior was public.
On a slightly different topic, what annoys me the most though, when dealing with racism, is white people who are so concerned with not being racist. Their behavior seems, to me, like nothing more than a grandiose pat on the back and in some sense I would think almost condescending to black people. It’s almost as if some people believe that with every act of racism black people must be reminded that there are white people who aren’t racist; I think they’re smart enough to figure it out. I imagine them protesting with picket signs that read I’m not a racist and a big arrow pointing down.
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