I'm familiar with the time you're describing. Indeed, I alluded to it upthread.
And I share your mixed feelings. Judicially forced integration was the sledge that shattered the modus vivendi between the races and forced us all to find a new balance.
From its outset, I believed that forced integration would, in the end, undo many of the benefits that should've come from ending segregation. Block-busting and bussing set in motion "white flight" and ensured black resentment.
I've forgotten exactly which judge it was, but one of the federal judges who ordered bussing repented on his death bed, calling it "the worst idea anybody ever had". <
And that's exactly what it was. The convenience, safety and community link of the neighborhood school...gone! Huge sums invested in rolling stock rather than teachers and equipment. The wide disparity between the races in performance giving forth to a teaching regime that was no longer focused on merit-based student performance, but aimed at leveling grades and otherwise blurring the difference. To be blunt, bussing destroyed public education.
Now, had segregation been removed from the equation without integration being judicially imposed, I believe we would've all found a new balance for ourselves, over time. Instead of a hostile takeover, we would've experienced a friendly merger. The professional black families would've moved across the tracks and been welcome among their peers in Bankers Heights. As a consequence, black children would've filtered from Douglass High over into Central High.
Eventually, we all would've found our place within this altered society. By 2014, we wouldn't still be dealing with this problem...
Thank you that was a great reply.
The harder the government tries to resolve the problem the worse it gets. The Negro race is more divided among themselves and from the rest of America than ever before.
They are going to have to put their effort into rebuilding their families, raising and educating children of good moral character, and recognizing the opportunities they have been afforded. No amount of legislation or welfare can do for them what they must do for themselves.
It is a mystery to me why they don’t seek to emulate the successful members of their communities. Most successful Negroes possess the same attributes of good character, education, and family as do other successful people regardless of their colour or race. Then why they continue to emulate the losers in their community and then complain about it doesn’t make sense. Whitey is not keeping them down, they are keeping themselves down. But the government re-enforces this belief by providing welfare assistance and legislation to continue the cycle of desperation.
When they decide to obey G_D’s laws concerning marriage and the family, and start educating and raising children of good moral character, they will break the cycle. Gold cannot buy them this. It is a gift from G_D who created mankind in his image. And to the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton, I would like to inform them of the fine line they are walking as they feed their flocks.