Well, it's where I met the Lord for the first time, and where my youth minister gave me my first Bible, so pardon me if I wipe away a tear...
But, of course, the UCC is exactly what you say it is. In fact, the fate of the UCC has informed my entire understanding of the protestant theory (but I digress).
The "all whites are racist" explanation for the observed phenomenae post Brown v. Board and especially post the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a necessity for those who believed what most of us Northeastern liberals believed would happen, way back then (I was aged 4-14 then).
The collapse of urban black communities, the collapse of the black family, the revolutionary conditions in the public schools CANNOT BE EXPLAINED by the advocates for desegregation in any other way than persistent and pervasive white racism.
I mean, if you read Losing Ground (and things are now much, much worse), and you were an adult and supportive of desegregation in 1954-64, what are you going to say about what has happened?
I heard of that book a while ago never read all of it but really goes to show that “ The great society” was not great after all and the worst things those minority families did was sign on with the left and look what happened.