As I travel through the plantation I reside on, I am continually struck by how the African American community has been destroyed. The community is left with one economic group of people, POOR PEOPLE.
Poor people have the additional burden of receiving poor services from all of their interactions with the internal and external community. Consequently, the death rate is higher from curable diseases. Additionally, all of the indices around positive living are extremely low.
During the great migration, when African Americans moved from the south to the north; racial segregation became popular. There were African American strongholds in many urban areas. African Americans established their own communities.
A community that was comprised of shoe repair shops, dentist’s offices, movie theaters and physician’s offices. There were people with various skills that made up the community. The majority of the goods and services that were required for daily living could be obtained in your community.
In those communities African Americans lived, shopped and sought entertainment, A great many of the small businesses were owned by African Americans.
When the communities were desegregated the people with money got the h*** out of the community. They left a void that was never filled. Unfortunately, a great many of the people that moved are now again, living in a race specific communities.
As African Americans moved in to white communities, the white people moved further out.
The federal government was complicit in this movement through exclusionary zoning and other tactics, typical. Whites established their own separate enclaves and excluded African Americans.
There are millions of white people that never interact with African Americans. Here comes another MAJOR problem, as a result of white people not interacting with black people they believe the negative stereotypes they get from the media.
The negative stereotypes are continual. Consequently, white people cannot understand why African Americans are relevant to the American society.
Hi,it died,in the early eighties,when President Reagan,instituted and carried on the policies and plan of White America,and allowed the saturation of our neighborhoods with Crack Cocaine,Herion,&Mariquana.Oppressed us thru Hollywood,Killed Family thru Gangsta Rap.Integration essentially meant disentegration.
You failed to mention how immigrants from other countries come into black communities opening liquor stores, corner stores, etc. They never interact with or live in the communities; They just use the communities to run businesses. They have literally taken over all of the 7 elevens and there’s always a chines take out in or near the neighborhood. The whites are gone completely. All of the goods in their corner stores are ridiculously priced; (higher)