Didn't care?
There's an entire book about what Meredith had to endure from fellow students and others while he 'was in school' at Ole Miss.
If people had cared about racial hate and violence, the haters would have been shut down and James would have been safe.
In that way, people did not care about racial violence back then and they don’t care about the Left’s new and improved racial hatred and violence against whites now.
It’s a huge disappointment to me. That we still have people in power stoking race meaning, division, hatred and it’s ensuing violence, breaks my heart. I despise racism in all it’s configurations and rationalizations. We must “progress” to love one another and reject skin deep meaning and divisions as a basis of power in this country.