Professor
Great retrospective account. Thanks for doing it.
I think that of all the ethnic groups the negroes have been most hurt by developments since 1960.
Although they got certain legislation favorable to them, the big long picture was relentless economic obsolescence and endemic white racial preferences favoring other groups, including even other groups of color, especially Mexican and latino migrants in recent decades.
They were also the special victims of organized crime in cities, and special victims of white racial selection by law enforcement. This kind of long tradition, frankly, was only to be expected in the prelude to, and in the aftermath of, the Civil War.
I think, paralleling your comparison to the atmosphere of your youth, and the movements back then, that the coming together of whites and blacks now, though more integrated, will prove as evanescent as the ties that were made between white and black youth back then.
All the best
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