Have you actually read all the anti-black laws written and passed from the one hundred years after slavery, many embedded into the state constitutions that included the state's constitutional rights to segregate schools and explicitly ban interracial marriage? Louisiana put into its state constitution in 1957 that "All public schools to be racially segregated." That's not some idea of racism or abstract idea victimhood, but constitutional racism by the state government in defiance of the government.

There were no good ("equal") high schools for blacks. In Atlanta there was one black high school for 200,000 black students, and only room for about 2,000 black citizens. Martin Luther King Jr told me of this (in a video not in person of course) and said how lucky he was to be one of the 1 per cent to get into that high school because he was lucky to have an educated father dedicated to getting him ahead. In a law passed in 1953 in North Carolina, interracial marriage between a white and black would be declared void if it occurred and punishable by 4 to 10 years in jail. That's not a suggestion, it was made a law passed by their state government, which was controlled exclusively by whites, a one-party state that had banned black Americans from voting and passed poll taxes and other laws and state constitutional amendments to stop them. There was no way to wealth and power for them. About 77 percent of black Americans or so still at that time lived in the South and were subjected such laws passed by one party white ruled states. This is no mere sensation of victimhood, but mandated repression from laws routinely passed based on the elements of slavery: anti-interracial marriage, anti-black labor laws, anti-black education laws, segregated hospital laws, like a law in 1956 making it mandatory to create separate toilets in North Carolina. Miscegenation was declared a felony (a crime) in Tennessee in 1932. You name a decade after the Civil War up the 1960s and I name you ten laws or more across 15 states that were passed by state legislatures or local city governments that were against blacks, denied them their federal constitutional rights by using "state's rights", and segregated them out from the public life of whites.

You can say slavery ended, but that's just a word. In fact, the elements of slavery, minus the word, were broken down and codified into laws in the local and state governments. Only the word was over, the practice went on.

In 1967, Sarasota in Florida segregated the beaches.....