We are also talking about 6 trillion bucks spent on 13% of the population since 1965 and that population is STILL segregated, undereducated and the poorest group in the country. There has to come a point when the simple question of "why?" is asked of that group and "why do they vote 97% democrat”?
As things turned out liberals had nothing to gain from integration. So blacks were told "Never mind the issues of intoxication, infedelity, lawlesness, and disrespect for education. All you're problems are caused by whitey. These things are your culture, they define blackness. Any white person who tells you different is a racist. And any black person who tells you different is a race traitor."
This ideaology has had devestating effects on the entire nation and has warped our political dialouge for several decades.
But it doesn't aquit segregationists of anything. In fact they enabled it. They fostered the creation of a disposessed culture within their own borders.