There has been kindness and perhaps much kindness from individual white people to individual Colored people, but never from the mass of the whites to the mass of the blacks, but just the contrary.
Grimké acknowledges that while individual acts of kindness exist, they do not represent the collective attitude of white society towards Black people.
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