It was a brilliant strategy by the communists since Democrat-created segregation laws and other discriminatory practices, particularly in the south, made blacks ripe for recruitment, but to their credit, the vast majority of American blacks knew, deep down, that the communists did not have their best interests at heart and that a communist America meant the stripping away of ALL rights for people of all races and that at least, in America, there was a political and legal process by which they could achieve full equality, which they did by the late 1960s.