Let’s face it, like everything else it was LIBERALISM that ruined racial integration.
The no consequences, if it feels good do it, soft on crime attitude of the left gave black people a license to commit crime. A license that they still hold to this day as even a cursory glance at this website shows.
This made, and continues to make, the idea of living in close proximity to blacks anathema to most non-black people.
Of course, the criminal underclass has now been expanded to include many Hispanics also, who are also given a get out of jail free card by liberal elites.
The sixties was pretty much the worst thing that ever happened to America. Without all that bogus “liberation” things might be very different today and we might have true integration.
But unless and until we get rid of the group-identity obsessed Left, or at least get their paws off the levers of power, we’ll all continue to muddle on. People, as my Irish grandmother used to say, set against one and other by those in power to serve the powerful’s own ends.
The real moral of the story is that you cannot make people do something they don’t want to do. Its totally natural for people to congregate to their own kind. Nobody likes to admit it but its true. In Atlanta the govt has bussed the black kids into very upscale areas like Dunwoody so now the whites just put their kids in private school and 95% of the kids in the public school are black. Its ridiculous. You can’t change human nature. In 100 years journalists will still be trying to figure why can’t we get integration?