There was no appreciable resentment of the preferential treatment being given to the special group. The ensuing white backlash intimidates government officials who are already too timorous. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but he should ask nothing more. Let The Trumpet Sound. France's sardonic jest expresses a bitter truth.
Desegregation simply removes legal and social prohibitions.
In 1863 the Negro was told that he was free as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation. But he was not given any land to make that freedom meaningful. Not only that, it provided agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that, as the years unfolded it provided low interest rates so that they could mechanize their farms. And to this day thousands of these very persons are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies every year not to farm.