RE: Integration is not the Opposite of Segregation
February 9, 2017 at 6:32 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2017 at 6:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Right off the bat, I'd have to say that your definitions are suspect, and plumping them as having come "from reality" doesn't do much to change my opinion. Particularly, your definition of integration sounds like a description of -failed- integration...which to varying extents integration often does, granted. Moving on.
Integration didn't do that to black wall street, black consumers did that to black wall street. Given a choice (that's what -integration- did), they went elsewhere...and it's worth noting that there was alot more "elsewhere" to be had, and that would have inevitably skewed the flow of wealth, for better or for worse.
Finally, the idea that it didn't matter that "white mans ice was colder".... seems to be at odds with the civil rights movement in it's entirety. It seemed to matter very much that the white mans ice was colder, and that the things allowed to whites were not allowed to blacks. There were black restaurants...those were not the scenes of lunch counter sit ins...and it seemed important to those people regardless of whether or not they had "their own" restaurants.
I'd propose that the problem you're addressing here isn't actually integration at all, but a divestment in local business and communities. It's a problem faced by any community when the people of that community choose (or in some cases have no choice but) to funnel their resources outside of the community.
Integration didn't do that to black wall street, black consumers did that to black wall street. Given a choice (that's what -integration- did), they went elsewhere...and it's worth noting that there was alot more "elsewhere" to be had, and that would have inevitably skewed the flow of wealth, for better or for worse.
Finally, the idea that it didn't matter that "white mans ice was colder".... seems to be at odds with the civil rights movement in it's entirety. It seemed to matter very much that the white mans ice was colder, and that the things allowed to whites were not allowed to blacks. There were black restaurants...those were not the scenes of lunch counter sit ins...and it seemed important to those people regardless of whether or not they had "their own" restaurants.
I'd propose that the problem you're addressing here isn't actually integration at all, but a divestment in local business and communities. It's a problem faced by any community when the people of that community choose (or in some cases have no choice but) to funnel their resources outside of the community.
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