Rampant.
It was a different culture. Hell, there were 3 levels of Dutchmen in the town I grew up in. The KKK was in northwest Iowa of all places, what was their beef? It wasn’t blacks. Half of the lynchings in the country WERE NOT BLACKS.
I worked in Mississippi in a dry country. Just across the border in the wet county were 3 bars. One white, one black and one Indian. I went to the white bar. Was that racism?
Hell, I am a bigot. I discriminate on behavior. I don’t care what color you skin is or what hangs or doesn’t between your legs. There are some that do but they are a minority.
When I was in Africa, my interpreter would tell me as we traveled that certain villages were his ancestors slaves.
What I am trying to point out is how much we have been influence by the media. History has been written by liberals, be aware of that.
Conservatives are not idealists, xenophobia is a real thing, it is not going to go away, never has.
SO IN MY OPIONION IS WAS NOT RAMPANT, IT WAS MANUFACTURED.
“SO IN MY OPIONION IS WAS NOT RAMPANT, IT WAS MANUFACTURED.”
When a black man cannot enter a public restroom without violating the law, racism is rampant and obvious.