Maybe, just maybe this could have something to do with the national mentality endorsed by Supreme Court of separate but equal starting in 1896 with Plessy and not ending until 1954. That decision of the court was applicable to the whole country. The Supreme Court’s decision meant for 58 years America as a whole, not just a a corner of it, was legally allowed to segregate. This is the Democrat President WIlson segregated the whole government workforce nationally. Why segregation in Hollywood was legal and the hy first discrimination investigation in Hollywood didn’t occur until 1965. Of course there were blacks. There didn’t have to be. Legal segregation allowed for it and encouraged it. It was the national law, not some southern thing, like Jim Crow. Hollywood was created after 1896, around the time WIlson (D) the racist was president. He had an open screening of Birth of a Nation at the White House, to show support for his white southern voters who put him in the white house. So up until 1965, segregation wasn’t just accepted, it was the law. When the investigation happened, by that first black EEO commissioner, there was no problem with only including a token’ black. After that first (black) investigator/leader of the EEOC submitted his report to the Senate, he was screamed down and ridiculed and pressured to resign or suggesting with his report his agents did that white people were deliberately cruel and nasty and not treating blacks equally or even close to it. It’s not a surprise as all the grey haired white men in the senate grew up in a country where separation was legal thanks to the Supreme Court. That first black lawyer of the EEOC had such pressure on him by (white) senators telling the president to make him quit that he actually resigned after a year. Can you imagine not seeing the irony of this by the president? The irony of senators making trying to get fired the first black leader of the agency designed to protect blacks in the workforce being fired for investigating the treatment of blacks in the workforce?
Yeah, I can’t see it either. But then again, I’m no Perry Mason.
