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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
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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That's an interesting viewpoint.
I wish I had more time to objectively (as much as possible) study that era with regard to social construction. To the extent that I have been able to study it, I feel that I have a good grasp on the premises underlying much of the current status of segments of this society (trying not to say black America in light of Phi Psi's mention of monolithic grouping), but there are some gaps in my theory of the evolution of America's social relationships.
Hopefully, I will have more time at some point, maybe after I finish this hellish first year of law school, to research more on this. Many of my views come from my family, elderly black people I have interacted with (whose regergetations of history often are more reliable than the history books and sociological reports), and what I have learned thus far in school. I want more information from, I guess studies that have been conducted by real professionals on these topics. We'll see.
But, yeah, good point.