“The fond hope that blacks, rubbing up to whites, would pick up some clues to a successful life.”
I remember in Los Angeles, a couple of decades back, there would be huge numbers of school buses (as in probably 100 per day, or more - you would see half a dozen at once on the freeway) going from the San Fernando Valley to South Central.
This was because the Valley was 30% white and South Central was 6% white. Made me think just how special the leftists viewed us whites, since obviously the intent was for some of that whiteness to rub off on the South Central people. You’d think the KKK was running the place.
Hard to see what good it did, other than waste an hour or two a day for the kids and add to the freeway traffic - but no one complained, or at least whatever complaining was done (probably a lot) was embargoed by the media...white people, nothing to report here.
Unfortunately the response by many whites has been to simply lay the issue to rest by foregoing children; in twenty years blacks will have a very hard time finding whites to pay their bills. Even now, blacks are increasingly surrounded by Hispanics and Asians as whites simply disappear from the Earth.