What would happen if legal segregation came back?

[jamies]

What would happen if segregation returned?

All the white people would live in Idaho, Aspen and Malibu. All the blacks would live in Atlanta and Detroit. And in a perfect world all the illegal aliens would go home.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Packard fan

Uh; no disrespect here, those kind of "Black" people would've been counted as Cape Town Coloured in apartheid South Africa and they had a hell of a lot MORE rights there than the true dark skin people. Same as here in the US where there def less racism especially for those lighter skin "Colored" people with blue or green eyes and straighter hair.

Not really.

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

Depends. Who would bring it back in your scenario?

BLM and their demands are bringing it back. See U Conn and their segregated dorms. Separate but equal. That's what they want.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by bingo3000

What would America look like?

Well it is happening in the colleges right now. What will these groups demand in the workplace when they graduate in a few years ?

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by bingo3000

What would America look like?

I ask this question honestly -- are you just trying to stir up anger?

[burdell]

Originally Posted by Tritone

Within the black community. Things weren't so bad.

That's a picture of a sit-in, a form of protest. Day-to-day life wasn't like that.

Some older folks tell me that they never once met a white person until they were an adult, and didn't even see incidents like that.

And some would tell you they saw 'strange fruit' hanging from a tree.

[Tritone]

Originally Posted by burdell

And some would tell you they saw 'strange fruit' hanging from a tree.

I'm not making this up. Many an elderly Washingtonian glorifies life during segregation and will have you believe that d.c was once the pinnacle of black civilization. What's more, they blame integration for its demise.

Here's an old article about d.c's historic Dunbar high school that illustrates exactly what I'm talking about.

Rose-Colored Views of an All-Black School

Listen to this:

The late Howard Shorter was one proud Dunbar graduate, and he loved to tell stories about the grand old days of black Washington, when folks drove big cars along U Street, dressed to the nines, called shots, made big deals -- all on their own turf.

"Integration ruined everything," he would often grumble to me when we worked together at a public interest law firm in the late 1990s.

This was the near-mythical place depicted in the documentary "Duke Ellington's Washington," a school where blacks outscored their white counterparts on standardized tests. In 1900, when it was known as the M Street High School -- the name changed to Dunbar in 1916 -- African Americans from other parts of the East Coast moved to Washington so their children could attend the school. Ellington himself noted in his autobiography that "the proud Negroes of Washington" protested school integration plans because they didn't want white students to bring them down.

Old folks love to brag about the "good ol days".

[Tritone]

Originally Posted by Dane_in_LA

People who meekly live with being second-rank tend to go through life with less strife, true. But is that a good thing?

In certain places black America was becoming developed, so people were completely content living in an all black world.

[mountainrose]

Originally Posted by KnownUnknown

The last thing I need is white people telling me where I can and can't go more than they already do.

For a lot of people the only difference between Jim Crow and today is they can't be blatant about their discrimination.

What white people are telling you where you can and can't go???
Your bigotry is showing......