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I will say this, Pride and Poitier were accepted by whites. The ordinary back person, not so much. As a black man who lived during that time it is not about what someone feels when you get what was intended to belittle. After a couple hundred years of that, you kinda know. Now again as a black person who lived during that time it was laws and policies that ended the overt practice of racism. Now the end of segregation did a lot to increase understanding but that was no done because white men decided, it was because a supreme court decision made it illegal Still fir years after 1954 whites refused to recognize the supreme court decision. It took more federal government intervention, the Civil Rights Act, Equal Opportunity laws. And really as I read many of these posts, and the fact Trump is the president, it's kinda hard to agree with you about what made white men change.
Had the government simply done nothing about the races after the Civil War, there would be far less racial angst today. It was government, local, state and Federal that passed laws keeping the races apart. We wouldn't in the mess we are today had it not been for government. Now, the government has tried to "FIX" racism with more laws. How's that worked out?
Are you insane?
Facts are annoying aren't they?
If those were facts, I would not be asking you if you were insane.