"angry" 
And you are right - as the example I provided showed. But - it came at a price. It came with the price of HAVING to go vote in a group of men (my grandmother did not vote out of fear for her life until 1968) with guns on the back of a truck.
That's what it was like for the well educated and rich black folks in the South back then. The land owners and the business owners had to do that. I.E. The high tax payers.
That is my family experience. And that was having it 'good' in the South. They were rare - but they existed. And trust me - I'd rather be a rich black (bi-racial) woman in NJ - born in 1973 than my grandmother's experience.
If you weren't a member of her family - she didn't like white people. If I'd been born in 1900 in Mississippi bi-racial - I don't think I would have liked white folks either. She was the ONLY person that flipped a shit when my father brought my mother home.
Because she felt in 1969 that my father was handing them both a death sentence.
It was THAT bad.
My husband (then boyfriend) and I were in South Carolina a few years ago and NONE of the stuff that happened to my parents when they were in hell at Fort Knox happened to us. I.E. My parents getting run off the road when my mom was 8 months pregnant by some bigots in a truck.
It was THAT bad.
Now in 1977 someone (teenager two doors down) graffiti-ed "Keep America Clean Kill the N*ggers" on an interior garage wall when our house was being built. That was outside of Rochester NY . . . My dad just went down and spoke to his parents in his Green Beret uniform and set them straight. The entire family.
His father had to take it or put his whole family at risk.
Because you know what? It was THAT bad then.
And now - in NJ - in 2013 - well me? I married a man off the plane from Southern Italy. Do that to his wife's house - and he's gonna get ya! 
No talking - retaliation. That's The Gio! 
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