Incidentally, Thomas Sowell wrote that the greatest black progress professionally was in the 50s, before the Civil Rights era.
"The wise and elderly black people I use to work with told me that about the Civil Rights bumblers. Incidentally, Thomas Sowell wrote that the greatest black progress professionally was in the 50s, before the Civil Rights era."Sometimes I think I would feel much more culturally at home in the 1940's USA than today. Jews as a community always thrived in the US, even if the few stores and establishments in that era held sighs "no Jews allowed". Still much better political climate than Europe (and not even counting the Nazis.) Observant Jews have no business going into the non-kosher restaurants and shops that excluded them, anyway. And non-observant either blended in or had many other alternatives.