You're absolutely right. This insane desire for physical closeness w/ white people (read "integration") has left us with nothing but their stores to shop in, their schools to go to, and their neighborhoods that we spend years saving up to live in.
Many civil rights activists have said that their true fight was lost. they weren't fighting to live next to white folx. they were fighting for basic human rights.
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Originally posted by DST Love
To build from what you've said, I believe the Civil Rights Movement hurt us more than helped us. We were and are too busy trying to be accepted by whites, be their friend, and have what whites have (materially, ie clothes, cars, things with no value) that we were and are not focusing on what is most important. And that is building our own communities and businesses. If we had that, then a lot of our problems would be diminished. Maybe still existing, but diminshed.
When white people didn't accept us (not that they totally do today), then we did what we had to do. Meaning, we shopped at our own stores, ate at our own restaurants, lived in and took care of our own neighborhoods, supported our own schools, we helped one another out, etc. But once white people opened up to us (so to speak) then we felt we were too good for our own.
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