I mean, the racists really thought that everyone was blindly buying into the hippie shit that "darkies are people too" and they needed to just wake up and "look at the facts." They had "science" on their side. Countless papers were written. Massive communities existed. Real, hard "evidence" was there, and they thought it was foolish to ignore how inferior blacks were on a biological basis.

Doesn't it make you wonder, what if that's what this is? The defenders of a dying prejudice coming forward to resuscitate the ol' status quo. Is it possible you're just digging in your heels and feeding off of each other instead of accepting a positive change?