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[Marvel] How did Captain America react whenever he was thawed out of ice and he saw black people eating in the same restaurant as him?

I don’t know much about Captain America, but I do know that he was alive during the WW2 time period. This means that he was a caucasian American male, and most likely, even if he didn’t intent this, was racist.

Back in those days you were brainwashed to be racist almost, it was literally everywhere. Every restaurant, bus, water fountain, etc., divided. To think that Captain America was on some moral high-ground just because he’s our most patriotic superhero is asinine. He was born and raised in racist America, there was no way he wasn’t even a little.

Do you think Captain America was shocked to see this, or shocked to see anything else when he came back?
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Steve Rogers definitely was born and grew up during the period of segregation - but he was in Brooklyn, when New York City was one of the most multi-ethnic, cosmopolitan urban spaces on the planet. He entered a military that was largely segregated - and was sent overseas where American forces came up hard against local conditions, because Black British were *not* treated in the same way as Black Americans, and much the same could be said about France. Captain Rogers even served in an integrated unit - Nick Fury's Howling Commandoes being an exception to overall US military policy at the time.

So while he may have noted the difference, as someone who probably never shared any deep racial prejudice against black people, who had served alongside black Americans that fought and died for their country, I'd like to think that he welcomed the change that had come over his homeland.

It is also to be remembered that some years later, Captain America discovered that an African-American man, Isaiah Bradley, had been used as a guinea pig during an attempt to re-create the super-soldier serum - and suffered permanent disability when the untested, unrefined slowly crippled him over time. He learned of this from that man's grandson - the superhero known as Patriot - and visited his counterpart in an effort to reconcile and face that part of America's past.