He's not "reluctant" about black people, he just suffers from that typically conservative amazement that all black women aren't welfare queens squirting out babies to get a bigger handout and all black men aren't gangstas bent on raping white women, dealing drugs, and fathering numerous children whom they then abandon..
The fact that all of these people were articulate and spoke decent English is probably what he thought was "unprecedented", while Beck being able to sit in their midst without being mugged and stabbed was the "courageous" part.
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