Did you ever go to a white person’s house while a baseball game was playing on the TV, and have the homeowner wave a banana peel when a black player came up to bat? I saw that in a suburb of Chicago.
I’ve traveled for business for nearly forty years. I saw virtually no black union workers during set up at McCormick Place, but a sea of blacks dragged off the street of skid row to sweep the trash from the aisles the night before the show opened. I don’t see any comparison in Los Angeles.
You’re correct that Chicago would be worse. The neighborhoods are so divided and it’s not just blacks and whites.
I’ve spent many hours in McCormick too. The union guys were punks.