I find it difficult to believe that African Americans in Detroit during the 1960s somehow were not affected by discrimination and mal-treatment by the racist White population there [[as in all US big cities). I saw plenty of it in Chicago and Detroit during The 1960s. When I first came to USA for a visit in 1953 I saw Swastikas and anti-Jewish graffiti and signs on walls, and, at Michiana Shores at the Indiana/Michigan border, I saw a sign on a beach that stated: "No dogs, no "Nig----" and no Jews allowed on this beach".
Now, if they were treating Jews like that, they were treating Blacks ten times worse.
That must have been one incredible job of sheltering of their kids to have them not personally been affected. Still, they must have witnessed others being treated terribly.
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