When I was a (white) youth in the just recently desegregated south, they had a word they called me when I stood up for my black friends and neighbors. They don'

When I was a (white) youth in the just recently desegregated south, they had a word they called me when I stood up for my black friends and neighbors. They don't feel like they can say that one anymore so they got a new word. They mean what they have always meant by it.