“Well, black people were all presumed criminal invaders too, once. We got over it.”
Criminal invaders?
Anybody outside of prescribed neighborhoods was presumed to be up to no good. “Racial Profiling” we would call it now, but back in the day a black person who tried to move into a white neighborhood was presumed to be a “criminal invader” and his arrival was sometimes greeted at gunpoint. (Hint: google the name Ossian Sweet for an example)