"I plainly see," he wrote, "that in some parts of the country the legal barrier between the two races is tending to come down, but not that of mores. I see that slavery is in retreat, but the prejudice from which it arose is immovable . . .race prejudice seems stronger in those states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists, and nowhere is it more intolerant than in states where slavery was never known." Even in the northern states where black citizens theoretically enjoyed equal rights, he reported, they were too afraid to assert them. Those states that had abolished slavery had done so not to help the black man, but to help the white, both by leaving free labor without the competition of slaves and by eliminating the corrupting influence of owning slaves upon the whites.
DK quoting Tocqueville
Cf my prior post November 1: DK WHAT DOES SYSTEMIC RACISM MEAN SOUTHERN RACISM BECAME SYSTEMIC RACISM
Cf my prior post November 1: DK WHAT DOES SYSTEMIC RACISM MEAN SOUTHERN RACISM BECAME SYSTEMIC RACISM
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