re: Are these newly released MLK files? Pretty wild.

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The man did so much good for us as a nation


bullshite! He was a trouble-stirring fraud. A trained communist agitator.

He trained at the Highlander Folk School on Monteagle Mountain in Tennessee. Rosa Parks also trained there.

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Go ahead and explain how it helped black Americans.

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but the data is on my side.

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You’re so certain it was the right thing to do, yet it yielded terrible results. How do you square that circle?

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The life expectancy gap between Black and white Americans narrowed most rapidly between about 1905 and 1947, after which the rate of improvement was much more modest. And by 1995 the life expectancy ratio was the same as it had been in 1961. There has been some progress in the ensuing two decades, but this is due in part to an increase in premature deaths among working-class whites.

The Black/white ratio of high school completion improved dramatically between the 1940s and the early 1970s, after which it slowed, never reaching parity. College completion followed the same trajectory until 1970, then sharply reversed.

Racial integration in K-12 education at the national level began much earlier than is often believed. It accelerated sharply in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. But this trend leveled off in the early 1970s, followed by a modest trend toward resegregation.

Income by race converged at the greatest rate between 1940 and 1970. However, as of 2018, Black/white income disparities were almost exactly the same as they were in 1968, 50 years earlier. Even taking into account the emergence of the Black middle class, Black Americans on the whole have experienced flat or downward mobility in recent decades.

The racial gap in homeownership steadily narrowed between 1900 and 1970, then stagnated, then reversed. The racial wealth gap is now growing as Black homeownership plummets.

Long-run data on national trends in voting by race is patchy, but the South saw a dramatic increase in Black voter registration between 1940 and 1970, followed by decline and stagnation. What data we have on national Black voter turnout indicate that nearly all of the gains toward equality with white voter turnout occurred between 1952 and 1964, before the Voting Rights Act passed, then almost entirely halted for the rest of the century.

These data reveal a too-slow but unmistakable climb toward racial parity throughout most of the century that begins to flatline around 1970 — a picture quite unlike the hockey stick of historical shorthand.

We draw attention to the unexpected shape and timing of these trends not as an attempt to argue that things are or were better for Black Americans than they might appear. Quite the contrary. Gains on the part of Black Americans — though clear and surprisingly steady during the first two-thirds of the 20th century — were due almost entirely to their fleeing the South by the millions during the Great Migration. Starting new lives in cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia meant access to better health care, education and economic opportunities. But these destinations, too, were characterized by a persistent reality of exclusion, segregation and racial violence. …

In the last half-century, however, that collective progress has halted, and many who fought so hard for this progress have now lived to see it reversed. …

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Catholi


Not anymore.

The takeover has begun and it will be fulfilled.

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While the new details are amusing, I thought it was well known / widely accepted that MLK and Jesse Jackson notoriously fricked anything that moved - particularly dem white wimminz.

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You mean great like ... might you offer an example?

I mean I can name a lot of great men who were, first and foremost, good men.

Your's in an adage I've never heard. Might you have an example or two or three?

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OTOH, he was the spiritual and emotional leader of the America Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s, which was one of the most transformative movements in American history.

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But that transformation left America worse

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Cambridge Dictionary:

great
adjective
uk /gre?t/ us /gre?t/
BIG; large in amount, size, or degree:

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