One of the positives of the segregationist system was that it allowed black owned businesses to thrive with a captured market of other blacks. A White owned store wouldn't let them in, and no White is going to shop at black stores, so every black neighborhood had stores owned by, worked by, and made for blacks.
It also enforced a greater sense of community and unity for the black neighborhoods, along with a sense of investment and township that translated to lower (not as low as White levels but lower than today) levels of criminality and sloth.
The evils that SJWs bemoan today like gentrification, 'cultural colonialism/genocide' and lack of generational wealth can all be traced back to the end of segregation. Black businesses failed when they had to directly compete with White or (((white))) owned businesses, destroying stores of wealth and commerce. The lack of economic lifeblood and hard segregation disintegrated neighborhoods and scattered communities that withered without that cohesion. The cultural and familial ties of the black people, once out of their capsule, dissolved in the solvent of the dominant and superior White culture.
Now that they have suffered for decades they want to bemoan discarding their only means of protection. Well fuck those ungrateful apes, ship them back to Africa.
Apologies in advance for the slightly late wall of text, hopefully I don’t derail things too hard.
Segregation made every business have to build separate facilities to serve black customers if they were the only place in town. That is why they didn’t serve black people, they didn’t want to pay the extra cost of expansion. White people would buy black products if the quality held up, which they often did.
Let’s say you don’t care about segregation, you just want people to come in and conduct business? Suddenly, you have “problems” arise until you start abiding by the law. You better build that side entrance and make sure it looks like shit, or you’ll find out how magically fragile everything you own is. Segregation wasn’t enforced, it was “enforced“ if you catch my drift.
The reason black owned businesses thrived was a combination of lower cost of living and charging lower prices for the same quality work. They would go across state lines and take construction contracts, work service jobs for lower wages, everything they could to be competitive.
What killed black businesses wasn’t the end of segregation, it was the income tax, unions, and welfare-related bullshit. The first income tax only applied to people working across state lines (contractors, truck drivers, etc.), then the service industry (hotels and the like), and finally everyone else in the end. These were businesses that black people were excelling in because their home expenses were lower, so to get rid of that edge, the gov’t had to make up a new tax code to make it cost more for them to do work. Having the minority market cornered was an advantage that could be leveraged, however, also having whites admit that the work was quality work, therefore worth purchasing (Elijah McCoy, for those who know their train industry history, as an example) was helping black industry grow and became the major “issue” segregationists were trying to “solve”.
Same goes for unions. They were first made to hedge out black workers. Unions cut deals behind closed doors to make sure only their guys got the jobs. It took a long time before the unions were integrated, they were never this “workers rights” paradise group progressives claim they are, unions were, and still are in several cases, nothing more a 4th party in work contracts. Some are helpful, others harmful.
Welfare was a trap for black people living in high cost urban environments. It led the black community away from the Republican Party, and started the current issues found in the black community today. Essentially, the Democrat Party stopped beating the black population with a stick and fed them a poisoned carrot instead.
There was a reason Booker T. Washington wanted to cut a deal where segregation could only stay if blacks got a free education. He knew that black people with their current cost of living could do equal quality work that would eventually allow them to pull ahead of every business that practiced segregation. He was counting on racist store owners not accepting black commerce, while black store owners accepted any commerce, which in states with a higher black population per capita that would be better educated
for free as a result of a deal made, would allow black communities to corner that state’s market, ending segregation through the sheer power of free trade.
Reminder that the riots of last year hurt black businesses enough to put the communities that were pulling out of welfare back onto it. The Dems will never bring that up, they want to keep those income levels low, because they want to make their pet voting block stay in the pen.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.