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Virtually every group but the WASPs do this. You'd have to live in a city with a large enough immigrant/ethnic population and be friendly enough with someone that you'd be privy to these conversations. Jews, Persians, Vietnamese, Koreans, Armenians, etc. etc...everyone group that's come here has been clannish, keep their money in the community and quietly preferring to help members of their own group over others. I'm not saying it's morally correct or helps America, but it is done a lot.
Virtually every group but the WASPs do this. You'd have to live in a city with a large enough immigrant/ethnic population and be friendly enough with someone that you'd be privy to these conversations. Jews, Persians, Vietnamese, Koreans, Armenians, etc. etc...everyone group that's come here has been clannish, keep their money in the community and quietly preferring to help members of their own group over others. I'm not saying it's morally correct or helps America, but it is done a lot.
There's nothing wrong with it at all, especially if you're the member of a group who historically have been kept from advancing, and have been prevented from establishing "old money/connections" roots in the U.S.
There's nothing wrong with it at all, especially if you're the member of a group who historically have been kept from advancing, and have been prevented from establishing "old money/connections" roots in the U.S.
Problem is that's its tooo late as in 40 years too late. Its a start though not if only they could break away from being 90% block voting for dems they might be able to sway more political attention. Think about it .. what incentive to liberal and democrats have to do any thing real to help the black community when your vote is pretty much a lock every election?
No actually that worked. Montgomery bus boycott is a prime example. When you hurt them financially trust changes are made.
In the case of Montgomery, the changes were made only after the state of Alabama and City of Montgomery lost their appeal of Browder vs. Gayle in the U.S. Supreme Court. Even after that, the city pretty much doubled down on segregation in other areas. For example, four months after the SCOTUS ruling, the city adopted an ordinance that made it "unlawful for white and colored persons to play together, or, in company with each other . . . in any game of cards, dice, dominoes, checkers, pool, billiards, softball, basketball, baseball, football, golf, track, and at swimming pools, beaches, lakes or ponds or any other game or games or athletic contests, either indoors or outdoors."
The narrative of the buses in Montgomery being desegregated due to financial pressure from the boycott makes for a great story, but it's not true.
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In the case of Montgomery, the changes were made only after the state of Alabama and City of Montgomery lost their appeal of Browder vs. Gayle in the U.S. Supreme Court. Even after that, the city pretty much doubled down on segregation in other areas. For example, four months after the SCOTUS ruling, the city adopted an ordinance that made it "unlawful for white and colored persons to play together, or, in company with each other . . . in any game of cards, dice, dominoes, checkers, pool, billiards, softball, basketball, baseball, football, golf, track, and at swimming pools, beaches, lakes or ponds or any other game or games or athletic contests, either indoors or outdoors."
The narrative of the buses in Montgomery being desegregated due to financial pressure from the boycott makes for a great story, but it's not true.
Absolutely true.
Fact is, Southerners were willing to live destitute and poverty stricken rather than to give up Jim Crow. They said this plenty of times. It isn't a secret.
You're right. A lot of these revisionist narratives are cute, but they aren't true.
Maybe black people finally realized that segregation did not work?
Many people obviously do not read history.
Separate but equal-except separate was NOT equal.
Many blacks wanted to remain segragated,believe it or not.
They wanted equal to actually mean EQUAL!
Many things for blacks was in fact inferior
Like having the same clean schools as the whites did!
BTW,every other group does it.
Ever see a white person cooking at a Chinese restaurant?
I only use white owned banks...sounds kinda racist...dosent it?
Naw, but what evidences a long history of institutional racism is that nearly all banks in the United States are white owned. I'm sure for various historical reasons ethnic Jewish professionals are disproportionately represented in the banking and financial sector more than certain other white ethnicities.
In terms of immigrants like Koreans, Arabs, East Indians and so on, they tend too pool their money together in opening businesses or for investment opportunities.
Black owned banks are a perfectly good thing. So long as they manage their balance sheets well and aren't so liberal with loans that they are approving loans for people that can't pay them back. Otherwise they will only be in buisness so long. A black owned bank can participate in approving loans for the new construction of commercial property in Black-American neighborhoods. This is one more step in Black-Americans becoming less financially dependent on white owned institutions--including public companies in which 99 percent of its shareholders might be white.
Lol Whites said that blacks should get their sh*t together and when they make attempts to it's still a problem.
Y'all have no problem when the Jews do it. Come over to the Jewish enclaves in Brooklyn and see how they circulate their dollar so many times before it leaves their own people. Along with the Asians. Whites have been doing it for decades which is funny. That's why the suburbs exist and they're majority white.
If you have a problem with this you basically want black people to stay reliable on whites, which means no power. You know that if blacks built an economic base to support themselves and run their own industries that would mean whites wouldn't be able to control them as much.
All of you saying "things like this further separate us" please **** you are full of it. How many of you are dying to move to black communities since y'all are so against "separation"?
I want the trains to run on schedule in any bank I deal with. I'm sure black folks of means think much the same.
Well they certainly can't do any worse than white owned banks have been doing.
There's a reason why bankers have poor reputations....and blacks certainly weren't the group that put a stain on that profession.
Does "banking in 2008" ring a bell? Too big to fail?
Yeah...take a look at those mugshots.
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