Prejudice wasn’t limited to the deep south. When my Mom was growing up in Indiana (20s, 30s), it was illegal in her county for a black man to be there overnight. She thought they changed the law when she was in her early teens.
16 states had anti-miscegenation laws overturned in 1967. Indiana repealed theirs in 1965. Cosby enlisted in the Navy in 1956.
“Cosby won awards running on the Navy track team, but also experienced racial discrimination, being forced to eat in the kitchen of cafes where the team stopped to eat while on the road. He was honorably discharged after four years of service in 1960.”
Prejudice of all kinds exists everywhere and always, Bill Cosby and his wife are racists for example.
But you guys trying to justify something by painting with an overly heavy brush, are wrong.
We are all used to this phenomenon though, it is why it is practically impossible to bring up the 1950s with people under age 50, because the instant response is “what about slavery man......” “what about women man.....” they have been taught that before the left took over, it was all darkness and the lash, hate and oppression.