Our national vernacular is filled with antiblack euphemisms, but cosmopolitan isn't one of them.
The great immigration contraction coincided with a nationwide revival of the Ku Klux Klan, which, in this incarnation, was as much anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish as antiblack.
To whip up this panic, modern race talk must be revised downward into obscurity and nonsense if antiblack hostility is to remain the .