Conservatives adamantly refuse to admit that the regular, old fashioned, ignorant, paranoid racism that we all know about, doesn't exist. All that does is play into the worst impulses and behaviors of racial bigots.
Liberals have spent the last few decades clearly overcompensating for racism by lowering standards and expectations for American Blacks. All that does is play into the worst impulses and behaviors of American Blacks.
The two ends of this goddamn issue are hell bent on giving the other end absolutely all the material they need to keep doing what they're doing. None of this changes unless and until both ends hold their own accountable.
I fully agree with your first paragraph and strongly disagree with the second.
LBJ’s Civil Rights Act and Voting Right Act, coupled with his “War on Poverty”, cut poverty in the USA from 40% to just over 10%.
Affirmative Action for college enrolment countered the “legacy admissions” policies of the all white Ivy League schools, letting blacks enrol in numbers comparable to their population numbers. These policies produced the first real nationwide black middle class in America.
Ever since Reagan took office, Republicans have done everything possible to cut the legs out from under any program which will help poor people get ahead.
Democrat run cities in red states have deliberately turned into “Hell Holes” when white people moved to the suburbs. Red state governments refuse to provide funding to the cities for infrastructure, recreation, or education. Tax dollars and transfer payments from Washington are ploughed into the White suburbs, and the black cities are forced to cut funding for roads, schools, water plants or other development.
Then Republicans point to the deterioration of living conditions in the cities is proof positive that the “urbans” are stupid and corrupt and destroy everything they get their hands on. See Flint, Michigan, and Jacksonville, Tennessee.
When I was a kid growing up, white, Southerners were racist, openly racist, and white northerners spoke well of Black people. Now this virulent racism that the Republican party has been pushing since Reagan was elected, has infected the entire nation.
The country is even more segregated, voting rights and civil rights for minorities people have been thoroughly undermined, by lawsuits, overturning sections of the voting rights act,and openly racist gerrymandering and voter registration policies in red states.
I can remember when the racist poster, Steve McGarrett was openly mocked by both Republicans and leftists on this board. Now, all of the right wing posters sound just like him.