“I was in shock.”
The shock was because he thought his bleeding liberal heart insulated him from attack by blacks.
The beauty of liberalism. As Rush said a while back, and correctly, libs make TV shows with leftist presidents during ‘real’ Repub presidencies because they think that imagination equals reality (paraphrased).
Likewise, the left created a coexist kumbaya mental illusion their members worship as gospel. When reality hits hard and from behind, they are cannot accept it as it is not possible. Thus the search for ‘answers’ and scapegoats begins.