Good points. I feel the same way, going from indifference, to sympathy during and after college, to antipathy at their entrenched anti-white racism. It really shows how heroic people like Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas are, considering the thuggery of modern black culture, they are treated like race traitors, while the thugs are really species traitors, and they get away with it AND are publically supported and lauded. Rome, Part II.
Living on the edge of a welfare reservation/food desert, I was never sympathetic; my family had fled Newark before I was born, so we had no misconceptions about what we were dealing with. I worked with many older Southern blacks during high school and college (hardworking, family-oriented, no chip-on-the-shoulder), and felt they were easily the equals of whites (their children, raised in the North, didn’t fare so well).
As Americans know less and less about all school subjects, we’ve reached a point where the abuses of the South have become more fairy tale than truth. Given that the perps in those crimes are dead, I’m fine with that; I follow up any embellishment of the South (as though it were still happening today) with my own deliberately ridiculous stories about British soldiers eating Irish children in Belfast. It is hard to convince a Yankee born in the 1970s that they had any hand in abusing blacks...