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I'm not black, but it strikes me as condescending (I'm speaking generally, I don't think that Rudey was being so) to constantly treat black Americans as a monolithic group. Even if the experience of slavery had a binding effect, that bond seems to be constructed, and not natural due to the sheer numbers and diversity of people.
In the post Great Society era, it looks to me like there are now at least two black Americas. LBJ's programs did wonders to advance two-thirds of African-Americans, and it did wonders to institutionalize the poverty on the bottom third.
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