Stirring up black-white antagonism has been one of the main stratagems in the communist playbook since day one. I remember in the early 1950s visiting the home of one of the boys I played sand lot baseball with. They had copies of the People’s World (CPUSA west coast newspaper) and their sports page was raging about black players not being allowed to play on white baseball teams (minor or major league). As a youngster, I only felt angry about the strident language used against my favorite teams. I had two or three black friends in school and my parents were anything but bigots, so I was clueless about the racial prejudice issue. It was a couple of years later that I found out that Mrs. Johnson was a communist.
I was raised in the south in the 60s and I was acutely aware of the racial divide. Schools were segregated then. I didn’t know what that meant until I learned the meaning of the word “integration”. I remember it more as “busing”, but by either name it was the same. Not good times for anyone.