Your theory offers no way to explain how the country was still so racist so much later.
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Replying to @WarAccount
The thing is, the country wasn't actually very racist in 1965
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You have to go back to at least the 30s for that
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People in 1965 were signalling all over the place about how non-racist they were. It certainly wasn't cool at all to be racist then
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Black tokenism on TV and in movies wasn't even really happening. Mudsharking was basically unheard of, social suicide.
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I agree about mudsharking, but look at the civil rights act passed in 1964. And there was plenty of tokenism them
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I mean, segregation was over and integration had been forced for a while. Brown v. Board was in the 50s and the blacks there were regarded
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as heroic. It was very cool to think that we would all just get along and be one people then
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You really do have to go back to the 30s to find any significant Klan activity or segregation rise, and even that was rather localized.
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