westlake was created in the 50s and wealthy which means it was founded in segregation and the high housing prices made it slow to integrate. to me it took until 2000+ for the south to really start socially and economically integrating. through the 60s it was legal discrimination and redlining. after that you had to wait for minorities to get jobs in town and prosper enough to afford the suburbs much less rich westlake.
history of where i grew up is similar. used to be farmland. ran off the black folks during segregation. became a suburb. was nearly 100% white when i was there decades ago. black and hispanic folks were barely moving back in at that point. the place was founded in a degree of segregation and racism. you have to actively grow out of that. that dynamic tells people it's ok to talk a certain way.
i don't speak up because i am a snowflake, i speak up because i thought we matured out of this crap. this is backsliding and/or pandering to white folks watching their political power decrease. i am against it.