Was integration good for the black community?

[EMY]

lowkey Im starting to think integration was a mistake
Before, black people were forced to invest in each other and try to thrive independently because they had no other choice, but now they just rely on white businesses which are already off the ground

Having to depend on eachother created a more united black community, compared to the “black community” that we have today. Another black wall street could never exist today

MLK even said he was afraid that he “led his people into a burning building”

Maybe integration should have come a little later after we were more on our feet

 

[get these nets]

YES.

Integration just meant freedom of choice. Why wouldn't the people who built the country not enjoy the same rights and privileges of any other American ? or of any just-come white immigrant?

If people squandered, wasted, or didn't take full advantage of the rights that already should have been their birthright as Americans..........blame that......don't blame desegregation.

 

[William F. Russell]

YES.

Integration just meant freedom of choice. Why wouldn't the people who built the country not enjoy the same rights and privileges of any other American ? or of any just-come white immigrant?

If people squandered, wasted, or didn't take full advantage of the rights that already should have been their birthright as Americans..........blame that......don't blame desegregation.

Integration =/= Equality.

The Civil Rights Movement's wheels started falling off when the movement made a subtle yet consequential change in its goal of seeking equality and economic empowerment to seeking white validation, comraderie and sexual access. Once the Movement's leaders opted to change its goals to white/mainstream validation, sexual access, and having black people share spaces with whites, it sputtered out of control.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

It sorta of exacerbated an already fukked up situation.

Had the civil rights movement not been decimated by the US government and co-opted by lame middle class liberals, we probably would’ve saw even greater improvements that we saw in the 70’s

 

[SuperPawgHunter]

Integration is fine, but we went into looking to be accepted by white folks, rather than using the access to bolster our own community.

 

[get these nets]

Integration =/= Equality.

The Civil Rights Movement's wheels started falling off when the movement made a subtle yet consequential change in its goal of seeking equality and economic empowerment to seeking white validation, comraderie and sexual access.

I don't understand. To me integration meant the dismantling of segregation laws and practices and creating federal laws making it illegal to discriminate.
Greater freedom of choice. Of course integration didn't and doesn't mean equality.

I'm saying that with those choices now available and (on paper) federally protected..........individuals can't make poor decisions and then 50+ years later say that the problem was having the choice. No, it doesn't work that way.

 

[get these nets]

Integration is fine, but we went into looking to be accepted by white folks, rather than using the access to bolster our own community.

written by a man with the username "superpawghunter"

 

[ColdCutKing]

What benefits have their been post integration other than a higher volume of c00ns and culture vultures?

Not going to say it was good or bad before the pros and cons are weighed.

Someone list positives to provide contrast.

 

[Clark Griswold]

During that time black people were beginning to do things for themselves...

When integration came on the scene black folk began to live on their knees instead of their feet... I’m just saying...

 

[get these nets]

What benefits have their been post integration other than a higher volume of c00ns and culture vultures?

Not going to say it was good or bad before the pros and cons are weighed.

Someone list positives to provide contrast.

Are you grandparents still alive? If they are and you're not a recent immigrant....ask them that question.

 

[SuperPawgHunter]

written by a man with the username "superpawghunter"

Intellectually lazy people do what you just did. You're better than this, or should at least try to be.

 

[Mosiah Supreme]

written by a man with the username "superpawghunter"

Maybe he like to fukk white girls but don't worship them.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

ITT, people who didn’t live through Jim Crow wish it came back!

 

[Pimp]

The white man made sure integration was rushed before we could establish our own. They basically set us up..

 

[Treblemaka]

Integration only means increase freedom in an inherently racist system.

The victim cannot fix a system designed to victimize them as a minority population. The creator of the system has to do that.

Based on the stories from my Mother and Grandparents id take integration over segregation any day.



Integration is only bad for those of us who have no desire to work with the rest of us to improve our situation as a group.

The problem is that most of us are this way.