Heard an interesting take about "segregation" from someone who lived through it

Sowell has written on this point.

No question that the old regime was "better" for Black business owners.

It is certainly also reasonable to ask whether it is "better" for Black customers (a) to have the right to enter any establishment you want to enter or (b) to have MORE, similar establishments owned by people who share your skintones, while being denied access to many, many similar establishments.

I've heard the same thing. Can't remember which podcast but whomever it was backed it up with stats. The federal government screws up almost everything it touches.

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You certainly saw a major decline in the black community after CRA but i wouldn't say it is the CRA and the desegregation that was the cause.
It was the welfare that followed.

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People DO have a tendency to dump all of the LBJ-era legislation into one category don't they?

Desegregation and the Voting Rights Act didn't destroy Black families.

New African Magazine: How the 1964 Civil Rights Act cost Black America


Interesting article from a black magazine on this topic.

I don't think POCs current problems are due to desegregation as much as the LBJ raw deal. It was designed to destroy black families and has very well succeeded.

Yeah, I lived through part of it.

There is a lot of truth to what you guys are saying.

I saw things that weren't right but it wasn't like the current generation thinks it was.

Welfare certainly took it's toll on black people and some white people too.

I'd change the way you framed this. Getting rid of segregation and the Great Society policies are separate things that happened to occur concurrently. Each could have occurred independently of the other.

Silver rights?

In agreement.

I would note that in many towns and cities, the only 'important' business built by Blacks that remain in Black and family ownership are the funeral homes.

My elementary school desegregated my third-grade year (1973). My freshman year, I was talking to a black girl that would end up second/third in my class (of 100) who had two older siblings that were dumber than rocks (and ended up graduating with us).

She told me that her older sister had gotten pregnant, and my naïve-self asked her if she would get married. She said "no, mom won't letter her, because she will not get as much money from the government."

THAT was my introduction to government handouts, while she was intimately aware at 14.


[As a side note, she told me at our 30th reunion that she was actually not third in the class, but second. Our valedictorian was clearly a black guy, and she said that the school was not ready for both the valedictorian and salutatorian to both be black. Although I never thought about it back then, but I have no reason to doubt her. I was prom "king" of my class, and a black cheerleader was "queen." Amazing that we almost always had one of each in our 50/50 high school.]