Exactly! If you can’t make good out of having options, what good can you make when you’re back to not having options?
The separatists need to just put their money where their mouth
is, and go separate. No need to align yourself with white segregationists & get it codified into law... No need to take everyone with you... And no need to defecate on the legacy of those who fought & died so that we can have options.
Pookie & Ray Ray are a bigger problem for black people than
integration. Many black people “integrate” just to get away from them...
The separatist do -- they are concentrated in White America. They have had it "codified into law" for decades. Read "
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America."
How is "Pookie & Ray" a bigger problem for Black people?" This "Pookie and Ray Ray" line is so anti-black to me.
Black people integrate for many reasons. And it's not to get away from other Black people -- it's for better schools, higher home value, more options in general -- those that were once not allowed -- and gained -- or faded during integration.
The majority of them who did move -- got even more racism, rejection and violence from Whites. Whites in general was and
still are segregationist -- and more segregated from us now than before the Civil Rights Movement.
The truth is most of Black America didn't want to integrate -- nor did they. They just wanted equality and safety. But, many who had the means and education wanted to for more opportunities -- and because they were taught to make it -- meant living and working outside of a Black neighborhood. Sadly, many of us think this today as well.
Mainly because our neighborhoods don't have the resources and funding they need. Which sadly, was caused by the laws, redlining, and numerous attacks that have been aimed at our neighborhoods since day one. Again read "
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America."
Robinson details the splintering of African-American communities and neighborhoods in his new book,
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America.
His story starts in America's historically black neighborhoods, where segregation brought people of different economic classes together. Robinson says that began to change during the civil rights era. "People who had the means and had the education started moving out of what had been the historic black neighborhoods," Robinson explains.
He cites Washington, D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood as a prime example of this because of how Shaw was home to a vibrant black community and a thriving entertainment scene in the 1930s through the 1950s. By the '70s, Shaw had become a desolate, drug-ridden area. "In city after city, African-American neighborhoods that …once had been vibrant and in a sense
whole -- disintegrated," Robinson says.
He attributes that change to African-Americans taking advantage of new opportunities, resulting in a more economically segregated community. "There have always been class distinctions in the black community," Robinson says, "but what I believe we've seen is an increasing distance between two large groups, which I identify as the Mainstream and the Abandoned."
Robinson says that while a "fairly slim majority" of African-Americans entered the middle class, a large portion of the community never climbed the ladder. It's getting harder and harder to catch up, he says, "because so many rungs of that ladder are now missing."
So as formerly segregated neighborhoods begin to gentrify; rents increase and longtime residents get pushed out. "What happens to this group that I call the Abandoned is that they get shoved around -- increasingly out into the inner suburbs -- and end up almost out of sight, out of mind," Robinson says.
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The next day, King was assassinated, and his hope of harnessing black wealth remains unfulfilled.
Before integration, African Americans in cities like Richmond, Chicago, and Atlanta relied on black community banks, which were largely responsible for providing loans and boosting black businesses, churches, and neighborhoods. After desegregation, black wealth started to hemorrhage from these communities: White-owned banks were forced to open their doors to African Americans and the money that once flowed into black banks and back out to black communities ended up on Wall Street and other banks farther away.
“We started to lose a lot of our businesses and support for our businesses,” says Michael Grant, president of the National Bankers Association, a trade group representing nearly 200 minority and women-owned banks across the United States. “That was the toxic side of integration.” The financial meltdown of 2007 wiped out
40 percent of African American wealth in the United States, killing off many of these already-struggling community banks (they were not part of the big Wall Street bailout). Tri-State Bank in Memphis still exists, but it’s among the few that survived. Only 25 black-owned banks remain in the United States, according to the latest data from the
FDIC, compared to 45 a decade ago. At their height, there were more than 100, says Grant.
