What are your thoughts on integration?

I sometimes see people who were mad at civil rights leaders. Their reasoning is - you had the ability to make demands and your answer was "we want to spend money with white people"?

I see some black people who think at least back then we had cohesion and striving communities. I can see this point, but I think we need to give ancestors grace. Hindsight is 20/20. If you see this part of town, school, or amenity is crappy and the neighboring one looks nice, it's natural to want to partake in the "nice" thing. There are some whose mindset is "I don't want to spend money with them, but I at least want the option" which is fair in my opinion.

Truth be told, we had many striving communities, and the black dollar would obviously circulate in our communities. However, that did not stop the w.s. from targeting the black folks who were doing well. And I'm not criticizing anyone who is for separation - to me there is a major difference between wanting to be separate to protect and build your community vs the w.s.'s idea of separation which is borne out of hate and wanting to deprive others.

What are your thoughts?