The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

…the charge of racism is invariably a crock; indeed, that more than
simply an expression of (often contrived) liberal moral outrage, it’s
intended to be the ultimate conversation stopper. Ward Connerly, long
the leader of the fight against racial preferences in America, observes
that he’s had the experience more times than he cares to count of
speaking before an audience, knowing that 99 of 100 people agree with
him. “But if there’s one angry black person in the audience who
disagrees,” he says, “that person controls the room. He’ll go on about
the last 400 years, and institutional racism, and ‘driving while
black,’ and the other 99 will just sit there and fold like a cheap
accordion.” And Connerly is black himself. For the liberal opinion
makers and trend setters who’ve set themselves up as America’s racial
referees, the accused racist is always presumed to be guilty of at
least something.