Look at any number of home photos from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and our forbears reflected the same sort of personal pride, etc., so later for the white haters media hyped propaganda ad naseum...
The flip side is their beloved media did and do love to hype those shucking and jiving kneegrows for a reason:
They need and want somebody to be 'superior' too...
As the world's people got hip to their cons, far fewer of them are buying what they selling...
Long overdue we don't either...
FYI...