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I'm going to try @TheComebackKid on his arguments regarding why integration was bad for the black community.
First and foremost I don't think you are arguing that legal equality for blacks is the problem, you'd agree that's a good thing. However, that's distinct from the phenomenon of integration. You'd argue that many immigrant communities are not really integrated the way the black community is in the sense that they keep to their own and the businesses that cater to them are owned and run by their own but they nonetheless have equal rights.
Essentially, the way integration was done in practice led to the integration of blacks as an economically dependent underclass within other communities instead of having their own cohesive community. Despite the legal inequality before integration at least black communities were more or less self sufficient, with black owned businesses hiring black employees serving a black community., and that this helped reduce or prevent certain social ills that plague the black community today. Now often times you find that the businesses in black communities aren't owned nor do they employ blacks and are often run by some immigrant community like the Koreans if not by whites and you see this as bad.
Is that a fair assessment?
First and foremost I don't think you are arguing that legal equality for blacks is the problem, you'd agree that's a good thing. However, that's distinct from the phenomenon of integration. You'd argue that many immigrant communities are not really integrated the way the black community is in the sense that they keep to their own and the businesses that cater to them are owned and run by their own but they nonetheless have equal rights.
Essentially, the way integration was done in practice led to the integration of blacks as an economically dependent underclass within other communities instead of having their own cohesive community. Despite the legal inequality before integration at least black communities were more or less self sufficient, with black owned businesses hiring black employees serving a black community., and that this helped reduce or prevent certain social ills that plague the black community today. Now often times you find that the businesses in black communities aren't owned nor do they employ blacks and are often run by some immigrant community like the Koreans if not by whites and you see this as bad.
Is that a fair assessment?