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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz
That's impossible to know.
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No offense, but that's
kinda bullshit.
Jim Crow "died" in 1965, and yet there have been remnants all over the South for 50 years. Oh, kind of passive-aggressive remnants, to be sure, but the attitudes behind the fight to keep Jim Crow going are very much alive and well.
It took nine years after
Brown v. Board for the federal government to say "enough" and enforce the Court's decision. Kennedy was assassinated five months after that, and it fell to Lyndon Johnson to get Kennedy's civil rights bills through Congress.
And the second the contemporary Supreme Court invalidated parts of the Voting Rights Act, many of those Southern states immediately implemented more restrictive voting laws which, coincidentally, contained provisions that will affect the poor and minorities disproportionately.
Our schools are less integrated now than they were a generation ago.
The progress of the 60s and 70s is being slowly lost. If that progress had never been made, I don't think it's a stretch at all to suggest that Jim Crow laws would still be in place.
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I don't think the leap from 'generally agree' to 'suck it up and deal with the fact that your community won't be respected' is warranted in the least.
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Maybe not, but here's the reality: if you think the civil-disobedience-and-speeches approach Dr. King took is the wrong template for BLM, there's really two options left on the table:
1) Do it Malcolm X's way and start shooting back
2) Sit down, shut up, and hope white people eventually get their shit together.
Neither of those lead to a place where the black community is respected and treated equally with their white counterparts.