Women’s Liberation was the worst thing to have happened to black American men.
At the very time when the last ugly vestiges of segregation were being cleared away for black men to join the workforce, women shouldered their way in ahead of them.
I don't want to seem like I support segregation, but back during segregation blacks were far more entrepreneurial than they are currently. Out of necessity they built business, schools, even universities, with only trivial amounts of help from whites. When baseball kept them out of the majors, they didn't cry about it, they formed their own leagues with the same rules. People could see they their players were equally skilled. Blacks ran their own hotels and their own restaurants. They were developing a parallel society that rewarded blacks for hard work, taking risks, and developing skills.
And then came the great society, where we will integrate and then people just owe you things. It was a stake in the heart of black entrepreneurism, and they haven't recovered yet. Black neighborhoods in Detroit in the 40s-50s would not be deserts that have no grocery stores, gas stations, etc that describe black neighborhoods today. It would have had black owned stores.
You’d find a way to make the elimination of the Dinosaurs a womans fault wouldn’t ya?
You are kidding...right???
“At the very time when the last ugly vestiges of segregation were being cleared away for black men to join the workforce, women shouldered their way in ahead of them.”
I believe the problem was that blacks were moving into northern cities to take jobs that were on their way out of the country; when they first came up from the South in numbers into the northeast they were working. Over time as the jobs left they stayed on with no work, and never adapted to a non-manufacturing economy (they still haven’t for the most part).