Integration is not the Opposite of Segregation

[Rhondazvous]

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Well, that's true. By the time whites caught a cold, blacks would have pneumonia and befo whites got a headache blacks would have a stroke.

The final insult of african american history may be that enfranchisement came too little, too late.  

"They even took our crime...and then.....by the time we could take anything back, there was nothing left".  

But I'm not familiar with the decline of white communities. What are some examples of what you're talking about?

Rust belt communities stand out, but rural american communities have been in marked decline for even longer (something that, amusingly, the rust belts former glory helped to hurry along).  Our most recent election is an example of those declining white communities lashing out at a convenient foe, not that it's going to help them in any way...but meh.

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Gee, just the name "Rust Belt" says it all. The ramifications of this decline isn't limited to that region. Without our industrial center, the nation itself cannot compete in a global market. That's the price we pay when we write people off just because they live in another region, compise another sector of society or belong to another group.