That extraordinarily heroic blacks managed to overcome every obstacle white America could put in their path is no endorsement of white America. And it does nothing to alter the fact that the systematic degradation of blacks wasn't an episode or a prejudice of a few individuals. It was the very foundation of the traditional way of life of most of America until 1965. Absent that understanding you are reduced to only your level of "feel good" snippets, ludicrously trying to argue that Jack Johnson not being lynched somehow proves how "colorblind" America was. And even being as ignorant as not understanding the difference between white man-black woman and black man-white woman.
America has treated more people,than just blacks,badly. The Scots-Irish were indentured servants and treat equal to the earliest black slaves...that is to say terribly.The Shepardic Jews joined with their Christian brothers to treat the new immigrant German Ashkenazim Jews badly,who,in turn,turned up their collective noses at the Russian and Polish Jews who emigrated to America in the early 20th century. But ALL Jews were kept out of most colleges,when Paul Robeson went to Rutgers,without affirmative action of any kind.
Irish and Italian immigrants were treated as badly,or worse, than blacks were at that time.
And there was NOTHING "magical" at all about the year 1965,which has all of us wondering why you keep using that particular date to mean/mark anything. There were mixed marriages,which did NOT result in lynchings nor anything else untoward,decades prior to that year,in places like N.Y. and Jersey and Chicago.
In the 1950s and even earlier,upper middle class blacks were going to elite Northeastern boarding schools and colleges.
It is you and you alone,who are spreading this constant vision of America the dreadful,America the awful, where blacks were routinely degraded,if not worse,until that "blessed" year,1965;which is not true at all. And even if it were,that was 40 years ago and things have certainly changed mightily.Yet,you post as though Sam Legree was still whipping the backs of slaves and that it is some sort of horror that Hollywood isn't making movie after movie with a black leading man and a white leading lady. You have forgotten about "GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER",I guess;or are ignoring it,because it just doesn't fit your agenda.