They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.

Was never sic a yabble! If e'er there was sic strife and clatter, Fracas o tongues and bellerin blatter, Twas at the towr o Babel.

two radically different political groups

People of color, particularly African-American men, have been caught up in a twister of macroaggressions and micro ones. No amount of ignoring can alleviate it; no amount of achieving can ameliorate it.