Because Love is the most powerful force to overcome bias.

“I prayed for freedom for 20 years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” -Frederick Douglas

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place’.

-W.E.B. Du Bois