“Black People Were Just Less Smart Back Then” -Grandma
“Black People Were Just Less Smart Back Then” -Grandma
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My Grandma was running away from the Marcos regime in the Philippines as a political refugee. Many Chinese Americans's parents were running away from Red China.
There's more than two stories in America.
Btw: Asians are racist as fuck to each other. Just in slightly different ways. It's hard to describe.
Even if we settle on White America vs Black America specifically, Abraham Lincoln probably was a anti-slavery but pro-segregation kind of person. Racism itself has weird fractal-like split of nuance.
Case in point: Malcom X believed in Back to Africa and was anti-integration. Malcom X believed in building a new country (kind of like Israel) except for African Americans. What side do you put Malcom X here?
Even the people in the USA at the time generally just read about this in the news without getting involved. The fraction of the population that was either protesting or attacking the protesters was small.
Consider something like the controversy around gay marriage, which more people here might remember. Most people might have picked a side the way that they would support one sports team over another, but they didn't have strong feelings about the issue and they didn't actually take any action.
That was pre hajj Malcolm X, post hajj Malcolm X believed in integration but advocated for African Americans to invest in their own communities