Well, they would accept you if you "knew your place" and didn't get "uppity".
But once you cut through your chains and leave the plantation, you're through.
Around here, though, you can be anything you want from a lily-white sissy-fag Maoist to a Black Conservative to a redneck anarchist, and as long as you stick to substance, you'll get a fair hearing. Naturally, conservatives of any color get the best treatment.
As an aside (and anyone who knows may answer), is it true that the Dred Scott decision is still on the books, having been superseded only by the 13th Amendment?