No, you are assuming that something new happened and chnaged everything.
That's not it - generations of discrimination creates a vicious and self reinforcing death spiral. Post WWII blacks were kept out of the suburban migration and home ownership by discrimination between builders/developers, banks, even governments. In many states they could not get into good schools, could not get good jobs, could not live anywhere BUT in the city. Businesses followed the white people to the burbs, urban tax bases eroded, services diminished and ghettos grew.
If anything the civil rights laws, anti discrimination laws, and yes even affirmative action laws gave SOME people of color a more even chance and enabled some to escape into a middle class or better life.
Which is why today there is such a bifurcation in the black experience. Those who broke through, and those who could not.
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Posted: 09/07/2016 at 1:09PM