Black Kids Before Civil Rights

[desjardins]

White supremacy tripped this generation up and got them hooked on heroin by the 70s which lead to their kids getting caught up in the war on drugs of the 80s and here we are now

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

The last of our great people back then

Can just imagine what these kids would say now if ask that question.. rapper, football player, content creator

Look how much dignity and maturity they have. They were poor but they look better than kids today. Its not about the clothes and hairline, like people obsesses with. Theres an intangible it thats more rare in modern society today. I said it before, ut was written that the criminals back then even had more principles than the avg man today.

Really got nikkas romanticizing pre-civil rights

 

[Tair]

You mean before Segregation

Black people have unfortunately been brainwashed that before 1960, we were destitute and hopeless until Martin Luther King and the Government came to save us


Black People were able to live autonomous in their own communities from the beginning from Reconstruction (1880) to 1960. Black people were actually highly skilled artisans during slavery, which is why they hit the ground running when Slavery ended

Already had successful all Black communities like Greenwood Tulsa, Hayti, Mound Bayou, Fourth Avenue District, etc. They lie about how "The Tulsa Massacre destroyed the community for good". When in fact, after that riot, that Tulsa community continued to thrive after 1921

Then when 1960 came with Lyndon B Johnson all the so called "Great Society Programs" decimated the Black Community. Integration (especially Economic Integration) was a mistake

Integration wasn't a mistake:

• Our economy was still integrated during segregation, we just didn't benefit from our own money to the extent white people benefitted from their own tax dollars and our tax dollars.
• We had virtually no legal recourse during segregation; and our voting capacity was stifled severely to the point we had to take tests just to vote that white folk didn't have to take, this caused a further imbalance when it came to legal matters.
• The wealth gap decreased from 8-to-1 pre-1970s to 5-to-1 during the 1980s, but Reaganomics upended that
• More Black people attend college/university today than during that time period
• Black people's homeownership rates are unchanged

The main problem is not integration, the main problem is that Black folk weren't given what the government had promised us... Reparations for 240+ years of unpaid labor. That, and they would not protect us from Whites taking over our neighborhoods through forced expulsions (this happened regularly where whites would violently remove Black people from their homes/neighborhoods).

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

racism united most black people in this country. all we had was each other.

integration destroyed that.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

racism united most black people in this country. all we had was each other.

integration destroyed that.

Explain…..

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Explain…..

We were forced to rely on each other and stick together. We were forced to create black businesses, schools, hospitals and financial institutions.

But somewhere along the line, because white people instilled and indoctrinated the idea that whiteness was superior, the American Dream for a lot of black people was to live like white people.

And a lot of middle class black people start to see themselves as “equal” to white people, while seeing lower class black people through white lenses. Then they started becoming friendly and assimilating in their culture.

Instead of seeing that black communities had been deprived of certain shyt once they attained it, they simply saw themselves as exceptional enough to be on their level.


And this is through generations of social engineering. The house negro vs field negro.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

And this is through generations of social engineering. The house negro vs field negro.

I see where you’re coming from… Just wouldn’t use this analogy…. Not only does it have zero historical accuracy, its main purpose was to be used as a tool of division.

 

[darkmanp]

Everything you had was yours, even if you felt your ice wasn't colder.....it was your ice.

This was almost like Esau trading his birthright for a bowl of soup in the old testament.

Sure, what you had was yours...until they decided you didn't deserve it anymore. Do I need to remind you of the Tulsa Race Massacre? Rosewood? Red Summer of 1919? Watts and Detroit riots in the 60s (racist cops)? You may think it was all sunshine for black people back then, until a white man got angry or bitter about their life and decided to take it out on black folks.

Read what happened to 14-year-old Emmett Till in those very days we are discussing.

You and I can't imagine the fear when a group of white people came into a black neighborhood back then. Only thing blacks could do is hope those whites were in a good mood. If they weren't, they were likely coming back with more, all with bad intentions.