whispered

The bias isn't shouted; it's whispered through commentary, coded in tone.

In the seventh round, as Foreman so famously told it, Ali leaned in during a clinch and whispered in Foreman’s ear: “George, is that all you got?”

As his widow started speaking, she looked upwards and whispered a silent prayer.

The next morning she took him to see their infirm mother, who whispered in his ear: “I didn’t think you’d ever come back.”

When Hillary Clinton supporters whispered during the 2008 presidential race that Latinos would never vote for a Black candidate, they gladly joined the coalition that put Barack Obama in the White House.