Intergration
Intergration was not about sitting next to white people in a college classroom. It was about power. Dr. King advocated for power intergration when he wanted the black school to have the same resources the white institutions did. When this was not feasible, the movement then was for blacks to be in the white institutions so as to take advantages of the resources in white institutions. Can we as black people have the same opportunities as white in American society? If we cannot, then institutions like HBCU's and BSU's are still important and necessary. The argument about self-segregation is pretty important as well. Self-segregation is about freedom of association. When whites object to it, what they are really objecting to is the notion that blacks do not need or want to be around them in order to be happy. Integration, in liberal whites' eyes, was appealling because in a strange sense, they thought that it was about blacks sitting with whites, and feeling better because of it. But this doesn't really change the racial social order. That's black empowerment, which no one white really wants in this country.
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