Being popular at entertaining doesn't mean an absence of racism. It's constantly explored in media, books, and movies. "Do the Right Thing" has a rather straightforward examination of it.
When it comes to cards, especially given the eras being discussed when it comes to manufacturers and businesses, it is worth exploring the availability and distribution of cards of players of certain ethnicities. This is an era where even drilling down on whiteness was a thing, Jewish/Irish/Italian/etc.
The card industry has a hard enough time trying to figure out who actually put out sets, their history lost and only partially discovered by putting it's discussion out in the wild to try to piece together more clues about what was going on at the time.
It is absolutely on the table to discuss the availability, popularity, and distribution of cards during a racially weird era of being an American.
Ignoring discussing these things is a disservice to our history and how Americans decided to be a society during this era.
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