If America Is Racist, Why Have Millions of Blacks Immigrated Here? Did Jews Immigrate to Germany in the 1930s?

Jeneba Kanu, originally from Sierra Leone, holds a U.S. flag while waiting to become an American citizen, during a naturalization ceremony at George Washington's Mount Vernon in Alexandria, Va., on May 22, 2006. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

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If America is systemically racist, why have millions of blacks from Africa and the Caribbean come to this country over the past 50 years? Why would they and many millions more want to move from all-black societies to a white-dominated, racist one?