Son, look, you're only saying that because you don't know there are two types of racists: there's ones who hate black people and ones who love black people.
Jimmy Carter represented what was called the " New South" . He made it clear that he opposed the ideas of the " Old South, " like discrimination against blacks.
Wilson was an African American – a black person – who grew up during a time when there was still a lot of racism, a lot of discrimination against blacks.
There was, as you probably know, a lot of discrimination against blacks in the 1950s and 60s;there is still that discrimination, but it was much more serious back then and it was part of the law.