white folks oblivious.

...Baldwin's essential message was simple, and very much of its time. America did not have a "Negro problem" (as it was often called then), but a white problem, which consisted in the inability of those who built their identities on being white to face up to the realities either of American history or of their own bodies, feelings and selves: "They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it....I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be 'accepted' by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet...

i expect plenty of support for this viewpoint.
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They're all human beings, and though she may be a liar and a manipulator, it's probably because she doesn't know any other way to survive.