Sentence examples for touchy white from inspiring English sources

For questions of honor that we would find trivial or hard to understand, the touchy white men who founded our country sometimes shot each other to death within a thousand feet or so of where the Lincoln Tunnel toll booths are now.

While black-white relations tend to be touchy in some of the other countries — in Zimbabwe, whites have been pushed off farms, and in South Africa black leaders are fighting for their right to sing "Shoot the Boer," which literally means white settlers — Mr. Scott ascended to Zambia's second most powerful position without a ripple.

I also notice the same touchy-feely nature in working-class white cultures, so maybe it's more about community than national traits.

But some white people are still incredibly touchy when black people talk about racism – to a point where, too often, they are prepared to shoot the messenger, as demonstrated by the current Torygate scandal at London's city hall.

"Who has an easier time getting into college?" Other whites feared race as a touchy subject.

Black leaders themselves are increasingly in favour, though they say it would be a less touchy subject if the police were not so white.

The video opens with a narrator explaining that, "Affirmative Action has always been a touchy subject in California, a state with many high achieving white and Asian students".

His crusade, as a white man, to build a slavery museum raises several touchy questions.