@mekkaokereke @wendinoakland You can say you're being deliberately reductive, but "they were hopeless racists all along" is your argument.
It's possible to be reductivist and also correct, and maybe you are.
But if so, isn't the implication of your argument that it's impossible to have a anti-racist society because the whites will keep screwing it up?
America is systemically racist. Those who want to enshrine the systems of racism haven't been sitting around idle.