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Segregation over Intergration?

Barack Obama is still a big reason the countries economy is doing well with his focus on the working class during his presidency . Jay Z has helped push the conversation about economic inequalities with his album 4:44. They have both inspired a new generation. In America it has become educated suburban communities against systematically miseducated urban communities. The true threat to this system is the rare but much more common Urban Scholar. It is a common misconception that the ultimate power belongs to the government because the greatest power has always and will always belong to the people. The elite divide us so we can hate and fear each other. Thereby disempowering the greatest power there is which is the power of the people. It is critical that we stop fighting each other and start fighting for each other

During segregation blacks were forced to start and support the businesses in their own communities. Many of these businesses flourished and helped make other Black communities i.e Black Wall Street, wealthier than their white neighbors.
After segregation ended, African-Americans flocked to support businesses owned by whites and other groups, causing Black restaurants, theaters, insurance companies, banks, etc. to almost disappear. Today, Black people spend 95 percent of their income at white-owned businesses.

This “modern, sophisticated, and unapologetically black” community had banks, hotels, cafés, clothiers, movie theaters, and contemporary homes. this came with luxuries, such as indoor plumbing and a remarkable school system that superiorly educated black children. Needless to say, less fortunate white neighbors resented their upper-class lifestyle. As a result of a jealous desire “to put progressive, high-achieving African-Americans in their place” a wave of domestic white terrorism caused black dispossession.
History has it the the creation of the powerful black community known as Black Wall Street was intentional. “In 1906, O.W. Gurley, a wealthy African-American from Arkansas, moved to Tulsa and purchased over 40 acres of land that he made sure was only sold to other African-Americans

Even though the number of Black firms has grown 60.5 percent in the 21st century, they only make up 7 percent of all U.S firms, and less than .005 percent of all U.S business receipts.

In 1865, just after Emancipation, 476,748 free Blacks — 1.5 percent of U.S. population– owned a .005 percent of the total wealth of the United States. Today, a full 135 years after the abolition of slavery, 44.5 million Black Americans — 14.2 percent of the population — possess a meager 1 percent of the national wealth. The answer to how to bridge this gap seems to have already been answered….Urban Wall St.

A group of people gave up ownership. No longer having say-so about how their children were taught and much more. It was never about integration it was about desegregation. Tearing down a system of White supremacy. Everyone deserves ownership with complete inclusion