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...-post-WWII history and lynching stats has proved that even when black folks serve their country and are military/patriotic, even when they live up to the small-town ideal, racists still hate them. That is why racism is so hard to fight and insidious--the goalposts for how "white" black people are supposed to be are set insanely high, and even when black people meet those, they 1) are given another goalpost to jump, which are often totally different from the last goalpost 2) get grief for being "uppity" or "thinkin' they'rn better than us white folks."
