Yes. The black community was more often than naught portrayed as living in violent neighborhoods, being violent, selling drugs, committing crimes. That was often the first introduction young white children had to the black community, since there was still quite a few segregated communities.

The civil rights era started a lot of reforms, but attitudes were still very much affected by the former generations learned behavior growing up. In those times, it was an accepted fact that the black community was lesser than the white.

Those learned behaviors get passed down generations, which is why it’s so hard to make any progress in changing things. That shit often gets defended as tradition.

Take the entire “trad-wife” bullshit. Women submitting to men because it’s what they used to do in the past and it made things “better”. Now swap out wife with black and add white before men.

That’s what quite a few traditions are. Prejudice lightly disguised and packaged as something more palatable.

It’s why institutionalized racism and sexism exists. It’s not a buzzword. It’s learned behavior passed down through generations which formed the moral and ethical core of those generations and got used as a basis for law and culture.

People will literally die on that hill before changing.