She is a white Republican lover of Gone With the Wind. We became friends anyway (I'm black). For 35 years I have forgiven her blindness since she has done selfless things for me, most especially recently, a few years ago when I was in ICU and rehab for a serious illness - her sincerity was unquestionable. She has proven her friendship over and over again. Besides, not only did she NOT vote for the cretin currently in the WH, but she and her family voted for Obama, twice, on her own!
But now... we have a problem. Her verbal response - and her family's verbal response - to the murder of George Floyd and the protests shocked me to the core. To be fair, she may be having a terrible reaction to her son having a mid-life crisis; he fell in love with a very young black girl with obvious character failings - she is clearly using him, and gotten him involved with drugs and a dispute with her ex-boyfriend - and it has caused a rift between she and her son - and between her son and her daughter. So I am hesitant to flail accusations at her, she's already in a deeply emotional family crisis. We have not spoken since, except for a quick text from her ("are you ok?" - "Yes, hope you are too - thanks for checking in." ). So I am in the process of creating a loooooooog email with links to all of the things she obviously does NOT know about racism and the treatment of African Americans in our history - and our current tragedies - but just reading about allll of the lynchings and murders and massacres and beatings and brutality and Jim Crow laws and lies and deceit and... it's making me so angry that I don't even want to bother. But she doesn't know it yet. 
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