What you're talking about was essentially the entire thinking of the Black community after the end of the Civil War. That's why I compared you to George Washington Carver.

That assimilation didn't work in a particular instance doesn't mean that assimilation as a practice doesn't work. It's been fairly successful for black communities in England and France. White attitudes in America toward Black people have tended to lag behind other western nations, but they've shifted rather significantly from the post civil war era.

Driving while black is a thing, being in the wrong neighborhood is a thing, shopping while black is a thing. It doesn't just happen to the people who are "ethnic" looking it happens to all Black people from superstar comedians to clerks at Walmart.

I don't disagree with that. What I'm saying is that it happens because white officers don't recognize black people as a whole as belonging to their cultural group.

The Irish didn't assimilate, they were co-opted when it became impossible for the English-Germans to maintain political dominance while treating the Irish and Italians as non-White.

Unless you're suggesting that today they are not part of white culture, the Irish absolutely assimilated.

Asian assimilation isn't why they're accepted it's because most Asians are wealthy. Asians represent one of the wealthiest demographic cohorts.

We had laws restricting Asian immigration up until the 1950's. The majority of Asians who immigrated to America were certainly not wealthy. Their wealth is a byproduct of assimilation.

But talk to Asians in areas where they're from poor Asian communities and then ask them if they truly felt accepted or never knew the sting of discrimination.

I'm sure wealthy Asians have all suffered discrimination as well. That it happens at all is a tragedy, but Asians don't suffer the systemic level of discrimination that Blacks do, and as you pointed out, Black individuals suffer discrimination regardless of wealth.