“Of course, every time you say this to a liberal they will come back at you and say you would not say that if you were black and grew up in the South, or if you were a woman, etc. etc. And they are right about that.”
There is no reason giving blacks the right to vote and desegrating the schools had to be accompanied by other destructive trends, such as higher crime rates and more out-of-wedlock births, that have especially hurt blacks.
Has the “sexual revolution” helped women overall? It’s accompanied a decline in marriage rates, and some have attributed lower marriage rates to a decrease in the proportion of women who report being very happy.
I’m working in Nigeria for the summer. The safety person said that a black guy from Georgia used to work over here with her. Every time they saw something crazy happen (basically everyday in my experience) he would say, “Thank God for slavery.”