"They" are not going anywhere and NEITHER are you (or we) so what do you suggest WE do?In light of the Harris/Biden discussion on busing and integration at the first primary debate this Facebook post by my friend jumped out at me. This is a guy I've known since high school. His parents were members of the Black Panther Party in Oakland and he considers himself a more revolutionary thinker. He wrote this:
""We must start by admitting the civil rights movement and integration was a hustle! We were bamboozled as a people when we should of went out our way to build our own communities plus focus solely on our economic base. Our own country within a country. The man will never change and all we got is us! Until we realize that nothing will never change and we will be continued to be hustled and bamboozled!""
Now in a sense this is all academic because integration has occurred. (However many of our communities still are heavily racially divided.) Of course 50+ years ago America was largely white and black. Today Hispanics are the largest minority and there are large number of Asian and Indian immigrants coming as well. So I don't know how possible it is today to go back to the large black communities of the past when discrimination forced them to be that way.
People commenting on his post agreed and said they have been held back by integration. The black experience in America has been a unique one. I don't know that what he wants is possible or how it would play out. But being discussed in a Presidential debate it's clearly a topic on (some at least) people's minds.
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