While this piece deals with past racism and bigotry towards blacks, a recent piece I read highlighted that antisemitism towards Jews is highest among blacks suggesting that some blacks are equally capable of embracing these behaviors and practicing racism towards other groups even as they condemn the past behavior of whites.

https://reason.com/volokh/2019/12/11/anti-semitic-propensities-by-race-according-to-the-anti-defamation-league/

So, why this divide among all races with respect to integration and segregation? Why have blacks the victims of racism embraced it?

I think it comes down to ideology.

Many Americans are committed to the core values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the concept that our Creator made all of us equal has been the core beliefs that guide us. Those beliefs have led toward the expansion of rights to all Americans and laws precluding discrimination. It has taken the majority of Americans to pass those laws and we should always be mindful of that.

But this belief struggles against "woke" ideology grounded in Marxism, that at its core is segregationist. It sees the world divided between oppressed groups and oppressor groups. This Marxist theme is ever present and comes through over and over again in the writing of people focused on group politics. Identity groups that point to past injustices committed by people that have long died and attribute them to people who are still living are trying to create an "identity group" wall.

So, in that sense racism towards blacks and by blacks will continue as long as people see the world as comprised of competing identify groups. And so, at one level, we will never be "post racial".

But as long as classical liberalism dominates our values, as a nation we will continue to resist attempts to turn this country back into a racist and more accurately a bigoted nation. We have come so far from a nation where being "different" made you "less" to a nation that is far more integrated than most.

For my family, the die is cast. One third white, one third black and mixed black, and one third trending toward Asian and mixed Asian, we are committed to a "post racial" world. We reject any ideology that divides people into oppressor and oppressed groups and see everyone working together as the key to building a strong and vibrant society. The strength of society is grounded in maximizing the potential of individuals and not allocating power among identity groups.