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Integration is not the Opposite of Segregation
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RE: Integration is not the Opposite of Segregation
(February 10, 2017 at 2:27 pm)Khemikal Wrote:


Yes, some of what I said was in answer to your questions and not specifically about integration. Hopefully, we can get on the same page with this. I appreciate your investment of time and energy and will do my best to be clearer.

I don’t use the conventional meanings of integration and segregation because they just deal with numbers without touching the social and political realities. The majority of whites live in all white neighborhoods and only encounter other ethnic groups on the job or on TV. Yet, they don’t themselves segregated. Absent is the caged in and controlled feeling one gets when one is truly segregated.

What I’m going to have to say is that it wasn’t integration but the black response to integration that caused the black community to collapse.

It’s true, as you said, that integration opened a lot of opportunities for blacks, but it also weakened their incentive to invest in their community. This, of course, was their fault and short sightedness.

There are examples of other groups who used integration to help their communities. The Japanese, for example. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they sent their children to America to learn everything we knew about technology. They took that knowledge back to Japan and now japan is a leader in technology. The Mexicans come here to work and send the money back to Mexico. Of course, many things going back to slavery contributed to the shame and aversion blacks feel toward their own. But they still have the power to do things differently.

One note on playing the numbers. The money was used to fund black businesses and when it was taken over, that capital dried up making it impossible for black businesses to compete yes, it was illegal, but it was all they had.
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RE: Integration is not the Opposite of Segregation - by Rhondazvous - February 10, 2017 at 6:47 pm

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