re: What do we want? Segregation! When do we want it? NOW!

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the African-American community had precious little, if any, cultural moorings

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And yet they were still a "community" mid-century last . . . Civil Rights/Great Society destroyed THE cultural mooring of the family. Not a popular claim, I'm sure, but tell me I'm wrong.

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healthy segment remains that way

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they're further gone than they were

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barriers were removed/reduced but the requisite social/cultural competencies were absent

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exactly . . . but I believe this is the fault of institutional impediments which hindered rather than aided any forward momentum present

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this phenomenon continues to restrain the AA community at large

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I would argue, again, that this has to do with social/institutional practices ("the soft bigotry of low expectations") instituted in part by desegregation and social quotas

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the AA community has a decision to make

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One they've perpetually had for 50 years now

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get with the program or remain in your squalor..

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It will only get worse through enabling

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is their call

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I think that if our society is to sustain itself, then it's ours as well.