I STRONGLY encourage everyone to watch this documentary from 2015.
It gives a high level view of Black America and politics etc since MLK. The very relevant parts to this discussion that took place in this thread the other day starts at the 54:00 min mark....and ends around the 1:38:00 minute mark.
Give it a watch man. Some stuff I'm sure most of us already know and have touched on....but it's well done and clear. Great stuff....very informative
I watched some of the documentary, have to finish watching it, I knew some stuff but I learn a lot more.
Some thoughts....
-Trump is just Reagan 2.0. It is alarming how some white people of the 1970s and some white people dried found that minorities flourishing meant they were being ignored. Pure BS both times. And an opportunistic racist was there to take advantage
-I didn't know what a big con artist Nixon was. Like I knew about the Southern Strategy to attract racist whites, and his silent majority through the Sunbelt, but dude finessed 18% of the black vote preaching that black enterprise talk, good lawd he was the OG finesse gawd.
To this day I maintain that the country would have been better off if RFK became president. Nixon did some good but he caused so much destruction is so many ways
-Black people have to be wary of thinking capitalism and black enterprise is the answer to everything. Yes it helped some, it helped build a middle class but poor blacks still needed a huge dose of socialism. I think besides the voting talk, demonizing black people, especially black women for using government programs is a dangerous practice. This "white daddy" talk I hear black dudes telling black women really irks me.
-Black people keep to focus on class issues too. The black middle class is kinda on the same side of the fight now with the black lower classes. At one time you had many in the black middle class preaching about free market capitalism, respectability politics, and supporting tough on crime measures.
The black middle class has gotten tough on crime policies mostly out their system but work still needs to be done on the other two. Capitalism a special case because America will always practice some form of capitalism but everyone needs to thinking about how capitalism is practice and how regulation and social plays a part
-The Civil Rights Acts and policies was great against De Jure Racism, but did little to combat de facto racism. Yes it was a net gain but I can see for some where their lives had little change.
-I still support busing students, all students, black and white, I know it is a tough thing to deal with though. Black schools are not gonna get better under the current funding mechanism. You have to tie the economics fates of black and white kids through education.
-Still believe in integration. The benefits far out weight the cost imo. And again, white supremacist and racist conservative want to keep the country segregated. Same with the voting issue they are tipping their hand. It is not only they don't want to live around black and brown people, they want to isolate one group so they can pass policy that benefits them and hurts others more easily.
-Points out how Reagan sabotage black cites. Shows why having a federal government sympathetic to your cause is important.
-That documentary is eye opening to how many blacks people viewed MLK. Tons of them were not ******* with him, even after the Civil Rights Act. And would use the same attacks you hear today towards dudes that want to go the public policy route. Kinda shows how many, black and white, distort MLK's image to fit their narrative.White people watering his social justice message down to nothing infuriates the entire community, which it should. But then why do some in the black community do the same with his socialism and public policy message?
