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Your romanticization of post WWII conditions is highly inaccurate. Black middle class expanded because of migration insofar as segregation and maltreatment allo

Your romanticization of post WWII conditions is highly inaccurate. Black middle class expanded because of migration insofar as segregation and maltreatment allowed. Take Silicon Valley. Segregation was legal and often preferred there until 1964 so the growing Black middle class was systematically denied entry in the 1950s to the growing job potential there. How many Blacks worked at HP in 1960s, or Intel in 1970s? How many Blacks worked at a mechanic shop or a cleaning service or a coffee place or any auxiliary business in Silicon Valley in the post WWII era, so their children could gain a foothold in the schools and the massive wealth creation engine? How many Black dental hygienists were there in Santa Clara county? Secretaries? Schoolteachers? Firefighters? How many Black friends did Steve Jobs have in grade school in the 1960s?

Consultant32452 5y ago
There was less income inequality between blacks and whites during Jim Crowe than today. You can expand that to almost every measure of well-being like broken families, suicide rates, criminality, etc. This is obviously not a post advocating for Jim Crowe. But it is a post that is asking for an explanation as to why blacks are doing so much worse compared to whites today than they were during Jim Crowe. Do you believe we've gotten more racist?
- erosenbe0 5y ago
  First of all, your claims about well being are nonsense. Use a real statistic like literacy or average number of lost teeth. The white-Black literacy disparity or dental health disparity is clearly lower than 1950. Also, none of your claimed income statistics are sufficiently granular to start a discussion since the average Black American worker may be something like 10 years younger than the average white American worker and also a weighted average by county of residence shows that Blacks live in places with lower wages compared to whites. Edit: you're not wrong that social problems have changed and some could be due to government interventions but you paint a broad brush that is not accurate and sounds like a talking point blurb

Consultant32452 5y ago

There was less income inequality between blacks and whites during Jim Crowe than today. You can expand that to almost every measure of well-being like broken families, suicide rates, criminality, etc. This is obviously not a post advocating for Jim Crowe. But it is a post that is asking for an explanation as to why blacks are doing so much worse compared to whites today than they were during Jim Crowe. Do you believe we've gotten more racist?

erosenbe0 5y ago
First of all, your claims about well being are nonsense. Use a real statistic like literacy or average number of lost teeth. The white-Black literacy disparity or dental health disparity is clearly lower than 1950. Also, none of your claimed income statistics are sufficiently granular to start a discussion since the average Black American worker may be something like 10 years younger than the average white American worker and also a weighted average by county of residence shows that Blacks live in places with lower wages compared to whites. Edit: you're not wrong that social problems have changed and some could be due to government interventions but you paint a broad brush that is not accurate and sounds like a talking point blurb