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Yes, Integration with a capital I, which is from a legalistic POV after the two Brown decisions and the CRA, hurt Black communities because it acted like a giant governmental hand slamming down onto a pile of coins—-it forced dispersal.During legal and social Segregation the benefits were:Consolidated interestsRobert Reed Church and others were able to slowly do what capitalists do—-start businesses, buy into businesses, support other businesses, partner with businesses. His revolved and expanded from a bar/hotel into real estate, retail, land, mortgages, a bank. What this meant was that if you were poor and Black, approximately 80-90% of the Black population before 1950 you could gravitate towards these neighborhoods and communities and there was work, middle class and decent housing, a stronger school system—-which came from the segregation of the educated teachers. This created a consolidation of our monies, abilities, intellectualism abilities into places like Tulsa, Miami, Oakland, etc..Consolidation also does things like Sugar Hill did in Harlem—-if you were poor and Black and moved to Harlem with your family, you were next to the educated, wealthy, Black elite. It’s called in education mediation—-the ones who know more or better, by presence mentor those who don’t. You were poor but you lived next door to or in the same building as a Doctor and his wife a Teacher. Your children played together. The Teacher made sure that your children were in the local school and they were expected to graduate just as hers were. The Doctor knew about health so he spotted issues or you could talk to him and get care without allowing a condition to go on. Plus you could speak to either of them, paragons in the community, about where to get a job at, who to trust, to advocate and recommend you to their peers, who needed help.A segregated community could nurture its poor to move out of poverty.College wasn’t a White concept because you were in shoulder to shoulder contact with college graduates who looked like you. Perhaps even farther as a child, you could apprentice to the doctor to become one yourself and marry into his family. The family structure then was enhanced.This then created the best offsetting consolidation of Human Capital.Human capital refers to the production factors, coming from human beings, we use to create goods and services. Our knowledge, skills, habits, and social and personality attributes all form part of the human capital that contributes to the creation of goods and services. Our creativity also contributes.The community itself becomes a social safety net.Advanced Financial SkillsBecause there is “space” for natural capitalism and exchange to occur, creativity occurs. So a young AG Gaston works in the mines, realizes it’s for the birds literally but notices how much everyone admires his mothers homemade lunches. He and his mother start making and selling her homemade lunches to his coworkers. They make so much that they then turn to the important question of what to do with the revenues? They spot a problem: funeral costs and insurance services. They start a business to pay for funeral services because the mortality rate is so high. You kick in 25 cents a week to $1 and your $50 funeral is paid for. Simple. In fact they then expand to you kick in $2 and your funeral services are paid plus a benefit of $250 to your family. This works through exponential payments from first dozens, then hundreds then thousands of people every week.The many pay for the death expenses of the few but most importantly practicing advanced finances or Group Economics, the death of the breadwinner doesn’t destroy a family. In fact it may be the push that they need to permanent stability if an insurance payment is $500 and the down payment on a house is $250.This is how White people, Jewish people, Asian people have become so prosperous: their Human Capital circulates within communities or their own culture.Have you ever seen a White family drive to the Black side of town to go to the butcher? No, they shop within their community. The butcher’s store is prosperous, the butcher sends his sons to college and they become lawyers, the sons then send their children to college. All along this line they’ve been able to stick together (sometimes even living in the same house past adulthood) until potentially marriage or stable financial ability to move.Consider this: What do you maintain when in a community that you’ve grown up in for 20+ years where everyone knows each other?Morals and Standards. So we as a community enforce things like lack of crime and marriage. Children out of wedlock is less because the mothers and fathers are policed by other mothers and fathers. Your mistake becomes your families responsibility. Or you get married.Now while in a shotgun wedding this seems punitive, dial it back to the power, legal and financial of marriage. You can suddenly be like your mentors, the neighbors, the Doctor and Teacher so you are mediated into the middle class.DesegregationThen we fight for desegregation because of the overall systemic racism—-the legal, financial and government systems—-segregation had reached its potential limitations because we might control a school or several in the district but as we start expanding to 40–50 million, we’re not controlling citywide school systems, we’re not controlling city jobs, access to government jobs, large enterprises.So, yes desegregation was needed in a mass way but the effect is it disperses Black Human Capital-people because suddenly we can be, go, live, work many other places than our consolidated communities. The net effect of that is now Black Human Capital merges into the dominant culture—-White Human Capital. But WHC has greater land, resources, community rules, etc. so say we had 1000 Doctors and Teachers concentrated in BlackTown, USA. Desegregation allowed and even encouraged them to move to 100 different communities. Those 10 couples then start servicing, working, spending their money, mentoring in those 100 communities.Let’s then broaden out that of those 100 new communities, they statistically follow population demographics, and 85% of them are predominantly White. Suddenly all of the Black Human Capital, like soy sauce into a white stew, has merged into the White communities. And been diluted.So whose fault is desegregation?During the CRA Movement (funded partially by AG Gaston (yes, the young man who started a lunch, funeral and then massive insurance business) also bought hotels, land, businesses—-worth over $100 million when he died. But most importantly creating a school for Black people, a professional school that taught office, business and life skills, helped to fund and bail MLK out of jail) Whitney Young, another architect of the CRA was negotiating in Washington with the Department of Labor, businessmen, entrepreneurs—-his intentionalized plan was to design a specific Black system of education and job development. Young’s assertion was that an educated, employable mass of Black folk are more valuable than everyone being able to simply vote. Because the idea of voting requires intelligence, insight, education, time, employment, etc..MLK and the other CRA architects pushed aside Young’s negotiations and pushed through with LBJ CRA, which LBJ had to water down, highlighting women and the disabled, to sell to the South.That’s how the Civil Rights Act both positively and negatively impacted the mass of Black people. (MLK later realized his error and spoke of the CRA as leading Black people into “…a burning building.” because of it’s inherent limitations and lack of life changing effects.)Now our Doctors and Teachers, due to desegregation, could do and experience new things—-they could move or more importantly EVERYONE could move. So instead of less educated, poorer Blacks migrating from say the South to Harlem and living next to the Doctor and Teacher couple, they migrate to the Cabrini Projects in Chicago—-where the Doctor and Teacher couples had left to buy homes in the suburbs—— that were no longer redlined due to desegregation.Yes, a life improvement but also a removal of the natural mentors to teach multiple generations how to succeed, to excel, to develop.In the Cabrini projects for instance, there are 4 generations of Black families on Welfare—-not because they’re inherently lazy but because they were never internally mediated/developed as Human Capital therefore by the 2nd generation (CRA timing) the more advanced Black people moved away after having been mediated to by the 1st Generation of Black Advancers.Generation 1 is the 1st Great Migration 1900–1920, 2nd generation is 1920–1940s (becoming the 1st Generation of Black Advancers); the 3rd generation arrives in the 1950s/1960s and the previous 2nd Generation (Black Advancers who’ve learned teh mores and values and established themselves educationally and financially) have left.All that is then present are the projects and no community infrastructure—-and then the 1960s make it legal for Blacks to apply for Welfare benefits. After having been paid peonage wages in the South, Welfare, though less, is still better.So the 3rd Generation, deprived of Human Capital because the Advancers and the best and the brightest and the natural mentors, are now dispersed in enclaves, similar to Whites—-pouring their resources into White government jobs, White communities, White factories, etc.—-goes onto to Welfare in droves.How Black Advancers Aided Black PovertyImagine your holiday White Thanksgiving Table is full of food and because you’re a good White person you gladly invite hundreds of your Black neighbors over and they all bring turkeys. Where did those turkeys come from? If they came directly from their old neighborhoods—-they brought them from Black tables. If they have been in your neighborhood awhile—the bought them at the White owned butcher and supermarkets in town.No money circulates back into Black butchers/supermarkets and no turkey is left on their tables back in Black communities.Back To The FutureWhat then is to become of Black “people” as we term the collective community?What I can tell you from my non-profit, social, educational, financial, teaching and political work, with predominantly Black and Latino communities, is that there is currently a fracturing. Perhaps since the Great Migration there always has been. The error of the CRA was that it was designed to a singular point—-equal rights—- but it wasn’t designed along the concept of a plan—-like the Marshall Plan after World War 2, to enhance (as a form of reparations) the state that Black Americans had been permanently degraded to by slavery,Jim Crow, prison systems, peonage, chain gangs. Change through jobs and education and re-education is what the Black Community needs, not the right to vote. Vote on what? Politicians work is geared toward the masses, not individual races like Black people who due to this historical shortage of Human Capital aren’t power brokers (business owners, land owners, politicians, moguls. Think of the difference if you took all of teh successful, educated, rich/wealthy Black people between 1990 and 2020 and transported them back to 1960——and gave them 60 years to work forward in their communities and teh USA? Think of of how many more successful entrepreneurs, educated folk, wealthy folk would have been created by say a million Black people achieving by 1970.We would own Detroit. And Detroit would not have the issues it does. It has the issues it does because there is a resource/capability imbalance by races.We can’t combat or undo racism, poverty, police shootings, Ferguson community rapings by the police, Detroit disintegration, voter suppression is because we’re literally not strong enough. We have strong individuals though. We have engineers and scientists and intellectuals and teachers but we’re dispersed not just throughout the American social Diaspora but throughout America. Which means we’re not concentrated in the areas that need us, the Advancers, the most.Here in NYC, as an Advancer, when I’m teaching or mentoring, I’m primarily turning to poor Black and Latino people and saying let me show you how not to be poor by—-such and such. What I have come to understand after a decade+ of doing this and carefully watching the outcomes of the individuals is that Poor People stay poor because I can teach them how to fly but if they (mentally) live in basements, knowing how to fly is useless.What I then must do is stop worrying about the birds in the basement, go back topside and work on redesigning the structure they’re in so that it/they has access to the metaphorical sky.So here’s what I do now:I give The Playbook for Life (a financial A to Z 40 page financial maturity packet. Checking account to IRA to 401k to home buying to student loan/college and budgeting guide.I also give out an application to a 1st Time Home Buyers class and grant eligibility of $20k to $40k to buy a co-op, condo, house.I give this to the ones who stand out, who say things, who mention reading books, who I can see “trying”. One young student at CVS, I’ve seen him for over a year—-it wasn’t until he mentioned reading a book on a real estate broker that I gave him the materials. He’s ready.Those materials will give both financial guidance and it’s like I’m handing out $20–40k, generally to people who are potentially ready to decide if property ownership is for them. Within that discussion we can talk about both wealth and generational wealth through insurance, inheritance, passing on property, etc..What desegregation took away from the Black community in terms of mediated learning was teaching advancement in terms of education, career and generational wealth, as well as capitalism/development.What Then Will The Future of Black People In America Look Like?I was discussing this with a class recently and I drew several images on the black board.21st Century Black Population Problem #1The first image was the concept of people designated as Black being approximately 50 million people.The current statistics puts about 40% of that solidly in Middle Class or Higher (Rich, Wealthy) and another 40% in some form of transition to trying to achieve the Middle Class through education and economic measurement (earning more than $34k a year as an adult.)That leaves about 20% in permanent, generational poverty that they will never escape, their children won’t, their grandchildren won’t. This would be those permanently on Welfare, those living in places like the Cabrini projects, I even personally have a cousin whose been on Welfare since 1990. Well into her 50s she’s ridden them through giving up her children permanently, severing parental rights, apartments, shelters, homelessness and now she’s living in a small, Welfare paid for apartment in Brooklyn. There was a massive attempt by me and extended family members to get her off/out of Welfare but she sabotaged it on such a large scale that the story ended up with her trafficking drugs in Massachusetts and in prison. No, don’t feel sorry for her, trust me she’s a human parasite.Most Black people who are trapped in a Welfare cycle are not human parasites, they have simply gotten trapped into a system that doesn’t promote Human Capital development.In several non-profit programs I’ve been teaching Welfare recipients, predominantly Black and Latino have been ushered/forced into programs and classes that they are unprepared for and then fail. The problem isn’t their lack of intellectual ability, it’s their lack of intellectual exercise.One can’t go from non-intellectual development to higher certifications that I teach (LEED, NWRC, Microsoft Suite, Desktop Support Technician, Systems Administrator, etc.) without a background in being developed over time. Math, reading, writing skills—-writing composition, letters, critical thinking, algebra—Black and Latino people as an internalized ramification of oppression and rebellion have a form of deriding and despising education. (Which makes teaching them a joy and a half. One could argue that my cousin should’ve been a prime example of this when my family and I tried to help shift her.)The shifting of Black people out of poverty will not happen like a mass job fair where suddenly all the poor Black people are now educated and making $100k a year. I say this tongue in cheek because there was just a newspaper article I cut out for my students of a Black woman who had just done so. The point though was how motivated she was, desperate even after her husband died, to become something that could support her and her children and the program she stuck with to educated/develop her.What will most likely happen over the next 50 to 100 years are the impacts of immigration, technology and lack of development will pan out.Immigration will present options to employers, to schools, to programs of people who are more eager to engage systems that want to develop their Human Capital.Technology, pointedly automation and advanced computer skills (MS Office, Adobe designing skills, the ability to pick up specialty programs and learn software because one understands the psychological/intellectual basis) will supplant Black people. Computers, technology, etc are math, engineering, science based. Those of us not ready won’t be able to catch up.Lack of Development—I have constantly been in some form of school training every 1–2 years of the past two decades. I could argue that I like school and learning but what that interest has turned into is an aptitude for learning, fast. It seems esoteric until you look at that I’ve stayed in lock step with technology on many levels—first having my own personal computer as a teenager, going to my mother’s job and seeing her data work and even using the Xerox machine to copy comic book covers to sell in school, to writing manuscripts on my Commodore, to buying my first PC in college, to carrying an MS Office manual with me to a variety of temp jobs and sitting there doing the exercises during down time, to taking Quark, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Photoshop and MS Office classes—$99 to $299 a pieces for a year, to taking JavaScript, HTML, C++< A+, Desktop Support Technician then Systems Administrator classes—-just for the lark of it. Later on my resume and head packed with these skills I’ve always been pulled into short and long term positions because I’ve had the IT experience-=—-aside from my business, teaching and education design skills.What this has meant is choice, I’ve always had a choice about where I wanted to work and how much I wanted to be paid.Besides her personality and mentality, some of the reasons why my cousin (actually several) can’t get off of permanent Welfare/out of poverty is they lack a versatility of not just mentality but ingrained skills. Even when Welfare forces them to jobs they’re dead end, repetitive, soul draining so they find a way to sabotage them. Welfare sends her out periodically to work. The work? Checking on other Welfare recipients that the amount of people who live in the house is correct. Silly, small work but they send her to do that——because she has no skills. She is Human Capital deficient and skating towards an age where she will have been on Welfare all of her lifetime, having accomplished nothing but been a permanent recipient of state aid.21st Century Black Population Problem # 2The next biggest problem will be that we are attached to each other. Fortunately having seen the unfortunate mentality my cousin possesses, I’ve been able to complete sever my relationship with her. Much to her loss. Again other Black people like me are the mediators to move her out of poverty. She no longer has access to me because her mentality is too dangerous to my life.The 20% then stay in permanent poverty and part of the Shifting 40% that have contact with the 20% are gripped, tricked, supplanted back into poverty—-perhaps as much as half.That means that 60% of Black people have a “chance”. But we have issues that will affect many of those, including our despising education. That means that it will be a mix but probably about 40% of us will traverse through the next century prosperously, the rest will be left behind into a permanent underclass. Make no mistake, I mean that 60% of the Black population is as good as dead in the 21st century framework.Partially because we don’t have the girders of community and Human Capital development that robust communities, segregated, much a Jews and Asians have done (along with a healthy interest and respect for education), to contain and recirculate our money and internalized community Human Capital through and then mediation, we’re not viable as a whole.I would also add that the grasping by our poor and our turning to try and rescue them, as my family did to my cousin who was beyond rescue, costs us time and resources that should be funneled into developing our Working Class and Middle Class further along in their skill sets: home buying, wealth transfer, financial education.What could be a strong mediating inner core, is dispersed geographically and structurally, to their own problems that lack of unity brings.Our issue of trying to establish unity is problematic because we try to incorporate the healthiest, the smartest, the poorest, the least educated, equally into a unified system for progress.That doesn’t work.Kyle Phoenix's answer to Why is it so hard for America to recognize it has not reconciled with African Americans for its role in slavery?#KylePhoenix#TheKylePhoenixShow