Look at how attitudes have changed just in the last two years, this is an article from "the Root" from 2017.

https://www.theroot.com/charles-mansons-race-war-explained-1820607360

"Yeah. There’s no way a charismatic young man could inspire that kind of hate. After all, it’s 2017. White people aren’t stupid enough to believe that the fact that black people are simply fighting for their rights actually makes them a dangerous group of revolutionaries bent on committing violence against whites. No one could convince Caucasians to commit an act of racial hatred and terror that would result in the death of an innocent white woman.

Nah, that would never happen"