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Did Integration Help Or Marginalize The Black Community?
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By Kamau Austin
All moves people make in history have both an upside and downside. The fight for
integration had an upside in that white people couldn't limit where Blacks
could walk, go to the bathroom, rent a hotel, get a better job, go to a
better school etc. People couldn't tell you outright that you could
only go certain places.
Also
for instance before integration we didn't have 7 or 8 Black
billionaires and about 140,000 businesses with over a million dollars in
annual income. Before integration we didn't have 42% to 46% of Blacks
in the middle and upper middle class.
Before integration we didn't have 18% of Blacks with college degrees or almost 1 million Black families with a net worth over a million dollars. Even though we had neighborhoods like Rosewood, Greenwood AKA Black Wall Street, and other upscale cities during Jim Crow we have made a lot of strides in income (income and wealth is 2 different things) after integration.
Before integration we didn't have 18% of Blacks with college degrees or almost 1 million Black families with a net worth over a million dollars. Even though we had neighborhoods like Rosewood, Greenwood AKA Black Wall Street, and other upscale cities during Jim Crow we have made a lot of strides in income (income and wealth is 2 different things) after integration.
Before
integration we didn't have 2.6 million Black businesses and Black women
being the most educated demographic in the whole country. I could go
on and on with stats on good things that happened with integration. However what was the downside to integration?
