In Mad Men they got hella flack for having no black people on it early on but they had an episode that summed up America's racism so perfect it felt like a punch in the face when I saw it.

Wife and her black maid are watching a horrific news story on cops beat up peaceful civil right protestors and the wife turns to the maid and says (paraphrase) "Maybe its just not the right time for your people"

They knew he was racist and sexist, but looked deep into their souls and said, 'Hey, I feel like he's gonna get me the most money so fuck it' and voted the way they did anyway.

That MLK quote sums up my feelings the best:

“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”