Yes, he should’ve named the guilty party. And another thing never mentioned...this is probably why the south is now heavily Republican. The line the left uses about how racists left the Dems to join the Republicans is absurd. People ‘self-examined’ & left the racist party & became Republicans.
I grew up in Texas around the same time this article speaks about. My elementary school integrated when I was in the 4th grade. It happened without incident. Back then, every elected official was a Democrat.
I’d say, the surge to become Republican started with Nixon and his promise to end the Vietnam War, and accelerated with Jesse Jackson ran for President as a Democrat and when Ronald Reagan ran as a Republican.
I remember all those things the author describes, and my mother a classic liberal showed us what was right by her actions. When she drove our maid home, we sat in back seat and maid in front seat with my mother. Never discussed it was done. Also she told our maid to come to front door and not back. Word got out in black community that we were ok. So the children came to front door selling blackberries. We always bought them. I never thought about this until adult.
I met my first Republican in 1969 or 70. I was so shocked to meet a Republican, I asked him why he was that way. He told me and I said “I agree with that” and changed my registration. But what he told me had nothing to do with race, it was about economics. I remember him telling me the fish story. ie give a man a fish.....It just made sense.