I have surmised for some time it will take a return to overt and blatant racism to force the black community into doing for self...as we had done historically in this country prior to the last 40 years. See the recent supreme court decisions for indications of where we're headed. It might be painful, but sometimes you have to take your medicine to get healthy. As soon as the black middle class feels the same squeeze from racism as the poor currently do, we will have no choice but to change our tactics. We are fully capable of doing so, but we have become too conditioned to making reflexive, pavlonian appeals for justice and equal treatment (i.e. begging) from the same folks who've setup the system to our disadvantage. The "THEY" we talk about who isn't giving us X,Y and Z is code for the white power structure. Our most gifted thinkers still running around whining about "white supremacy", while the intellectuals from other ethnic groups propose strategies that are snatching power from the european and producing tangible results for their people (i.e. chinese, east indian, south americans, etc). Complaining that white political institutions, government entities or private enterprises dont serve the best interests of black people is supremely illogical. Why should they? Do they OWE us equal treatment? What, you mean you think they really believe in their own laws? Sheeeeyyyiiiii....Time out on all these excuses. If black kids can't read in all-black schools then BLACK people ARE the problem and BLACK people ARE the solution. Immediately after deseg you had a flood of black students coming from all-black environments go up in white schools and compete heads up, toe-to-toe, no remedial BS, and did so in the face of overt hostility. Now you wanna tell me black kids can't read unless there are enough white folks in close proximity? Nah, I don't buy it. Resegregation could be the best thing thats happened to black people in 40 years if we ever got around to making ourselves the center of our own universe.
This has some ENTERTAINMENT VALUE besides its DISCUSSION VALUE. At least for me.... I dont think any MIDDLE CLASS BLACK PERSON is PREPARED to take on the HUGE POOR CLASS at this POINT. The MIDDLE CLASS are even TEACHING their CHILDREN to AVOID with FEAR leading to HATRED the POOR BOTTOM BROKE BROTHERS and SISTERS. THE GULF between the CLASSES have almost come to a POINT of NO RETURN. SEGREGATION if ISSUED will REDEFINE BLACK PEOPLE in AMERICA in a UGLY TERRIBLE BACKSLIDING WAY. Besides you mentioned the OTHER PEOPLE in the NATION so things CANNOT be LIKE IT WAS BEFORE. But this may be something that NEEDS much CONSIDERATION.
This is how SLOPPY things are becoming. There is an EXPRESS LINK between how LOCAL to STATE and STATE to LOCAL operate. If one NEGLECTS the OTHER NEGLECTS to and VICE VERSA. No MYSTERY there... Pa. Budget Fight Brings Partial Shutdown
It all leads back to community involvement, if we as a community do not voice our disapproval of the treatment of all the grievance for better education of our future leaders they will continue the same trend. Raheem Devaughn Prophesied it right on the head, in the song "Bulletproof"; he mention"we fighting for education." Which is what we will be doing now until they hear enough. They just blatantly gave up on my generation, so we got to say something or the future generation will be a bleak one. It mighty strange, but politics and economics play a very vital role in all of this. They using any and all things to invest in lily white schools and leaving the rest to fend for self. They will also use that as grounds to still "leave us behind technologically" on a sneak tip. We can do a lot, but again without no form of community or unity not much can get done.
Segregation de facto occurs via economics and education today. Segragation de jure was the rule of the day in the past. Perhaps if we spent more personal time on education rather than leisure .... Perhaps if we spent more money on education rather than trinkets .... ... the situation could be turned around immediately ? When I state "spend more money on education", I'm talking about individuals and families. The last thing we need at this point, in my opinion, is to organize in some group only to have the administrators or trustees embezzle funds.