you must be retarded if you think that black people today have it worse than black people in the 1920's
glorify the past brehs 
1926 News Article About Progress Of Blacks Since End Of Slavery
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glorify the past brehs 
TheProfessor
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It's the solution no one wants to deal with. Because more than what integration did to us externaly, it's what its done internally that's hurt us the most. Black people can't see thenselves distancing from this country and their white/latina/you name it counterparts.
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
Do three things: save all your money you don't need for basics and first clean up your credit, start putting 10% of each check in savings (20% if you can), and finally start looking for a need to be filled. The mistake a lot of people make is only doing what they like and expect to make money. You SHOULD and CAN do something you like but do it in a way that caters to a group of customers.
Remember, some of the biggest money makers are the quiet and boring businesses that aren't flashy or well known. Someone has to sell ice, run a laundromat, liquor store, or even dig holes.
ZoeGod
I’m from Brooklyn a place where stars are born.
They killed,imprisoned and exiled our leaders in the 60s and 70s. The radicals were treated as the fringe. What the US government did is what other empires to defeat the revolutionary spirit of a people. They killed the leaders and replace them with weak moderates. They then let the moderates become apart of the political establishment so they have alot to lose. The black elites are SO out of touch it is ridiculous. And they complain that we young people don't respect them. Well you have nothing to show for.
that is amazing at just the 60 year mark. 90 years since this was written we should be ruling the world.
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
I dap OP for this post but there are a few things you need to remember....
1) Blacks in the 1920s were still largely rural. Blacks did not become a majority urban population until the 1950s. The big city crime was all done by White folks at this time, particularly immigrant groups. Rural communities (at least back then) were much more cohesive and socially conservative and thus the strong family, community, and economic networks. Also Black people had a higher marriage and wedlock birth than even White people back then. One of the huge hotbeds of Black entrepreneurship wasn't Harlem or Chicago's South Side (where Blacks often rented) but in Durham, NC.
2) The 1920s were when lynchings and the KKK were worse than at any time since post-Reconstruction and we still were able to build.
But there were still good reasons for CRM
3) The tide that led to CRM wasn't necessarily c00nery. The economically empowered Blacks in the 1920s had a bunch of roadblocks. The farmers (like many White farmers) were devastated by the Dust Bowl and farm recession in the 1920s. Since Blacks were mostly rural, they were hit harder overall. Some looked for industrial employment.
There were many legal, Union led, and other obstacles to many Blacks getting employment in industry. Those like Ford were a minority in giving Black people factory jobs. Industrial employment is necessary for a large sustainable middle class that rural agricultural productivity just can't match. The prelude to the CRM were the strikes led by Randolph to get Blacks employment in the war industries during WWII. Trying to get these opportunities helped lead to CRM
3) Lynchings spiked in the 1920s, and successful Black entrepreneurs (and towns like in Tulsa) were the targets of open violence with no protection from local or federal authorities. Ida B. Wells wrote about this at length. Black people could not always get guns (the first gun control was against us) and even if they did, the blowback would be worse. The anti-lynching law FDR wouldn't/couldn't support was a prelude to CRM as well. Black people wanted at least protection of lives and property they didn't have.
4) Booker T and Garvey (who I do greatly admire) preached only economics matters, not politics. This is true to a point but it is not a hard and fast rule. In 1928, Herbert Hoover pulled the first "Southern Strategy" before Nixon and pretty much purged the Republican Party of Blacks. This destroyed what little political representation we had and the consequences of that both eventually drove Blacks to FDR in the 30s (with Eleanor's help) and, along with the spike of lynchings and KKK membership, disillusioned people of the future Booker T. promised when our educational and economic achievements would make us more equal and respected in the US. Back to Africa by Garvey was the alternative but had no traction so we had to stay and fight.
1) Blacks in the 1920s were still largely rural. Blacks did not become a majority urban population until the 1950s. The big city crime was all done by White folks at this time, particularly immigrant groups. Rural communities (at least back then) were much more cohesive and socially conservative and thus the strong family, community, and economic networks. Also Black people had a higher marriage and wedlock birth than even White people back then. One of the huge hotbeds of Black entrepreneurship wasn't Harlem or Chicago's South Side (where Blacks often rented) but in Durham, NC.
2) The 1920s were when lynchings and the KKK were worse than at any time since post-Reconstruction and we still were able to build.
But there were still good reasons for CRM
3) The tide that led to CRM wasn't necessarily c00nery. The economically empowered Blacks in the 1920s had a bunch of roadblocks. The farmers (like many White farmers) were devastated by the Dust Bowl and farm recession in the 1920s. Since Blacks were mostly rural, they were hit harder overall. Some looked for industrial employment.
There were many legal, Union led, and other obstacles to many Blacks getting employment in industry. Those like Ford were a minority in giving Black people factory jobs. Industrial employment is necessary for a large sustainable middle class that rural agricultural productivity just can't match. The prelude to the CRM were the strikes led by Randolph to get Blacks employment in the war industries during WWII. Trying to get these opportunities helped lead to CRM
3) Lynchings spiked in the 1920s, and successful Black entrepreneurs (and towns like in Tulsa) were the targets of open violence with no protection from local or federal authorities. Ida B. Wells wrote about this at length. Black people could not always get guns (the first gun control was against us) and even if they did, the blowback would be worse. The anti-lynching law FDR wouldn't/couldn't support was a prelude to CRM as well. Black people wanted at least protection of lives and property they didn't have.
4) Booker T and Garvey (who I do greatly admire) preached only economics matters, not politics. This is true to a point but it is not a hard and fast rule. In 1928, Herbert Hoover pulled the first "Southern Strategy" before Nixon and pretty much purged the Republican Party of Blacks. This destroyed what little political representation we had and the consequences of that both eventually drove Blacks to FDR in the 30s (with Eleanor's help) and, along with the spike of lynchings and KKK membership, disillusioned people of the future Booker T. promised when our educational and economic achievements would make us more equal and respected in the US. Back to Africa by Garvey was the alternative but had no traction so we had to stay and fight.
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
Good point. I forgot to mention that in 1926 the FBI was only 18 years old. Though they helped bring down Garvey, the outright infiltration and sophistication of the 1960s wasn't there yet.
@ people blaming integration and not two economic downturns, a change in the economic structure of the country, globalization, and two new sectors of the economy that blacks were almost not a part of at all 
You need a strong history lesson.
The "Asian community" in the US was small until after 1965.
Nearly all are immigrants, and immigrants fare better than all segments of the US population, if they come w/ education, oft-one of the only reasons they can immigrate. Same reason Nierians outdo AAs as well.
Native Americans are poorer than AAs, they have the highest poverty rate by far in the US.
feelosofer
#ninergang
The article shows the power that Black people can possess when we come together, but also keep in mind most of that money came from farming which was essentially wiped out after the dust bowl, also Whites had started to monopolize manufacturing and industrial jobs in the post WWII era which led to the boom in the white middle class, which blocked out Blacks.
Right.
Depression, a couple recessions, unprecedented wealth inequality, oppressive government policy all have nothing to do with it.
It was integration that did it
Not to mention that wealth for the entire country doubled during that time and has not seen that type of growth since.
None of that matters though. It was the c00ns begging to live near white folks.
Crazy how many people came in to cosign this dumb shyt
Segregation did us in
R.E.N. Spells Ren
Veteran
That's why you shyt on the the Civil Rights movement, but my comment was directed at those blaming the Civil Rights movement for the destruction of what was being built in the 20's. That's categorically false and there are plenty in this thread doing that.
