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Ok.. more trusting too. If, by your argument, it was more segregated, wouldn't blacks feel more trusting among those they felt a kindred spirit with?

Are you kidding me? That's a horrible way to live

"Yeah, just stick with your race and you won't have any trust issues. Don't worry about trying to better yourself or move to a better neighborhood or broaden your horizons."

Being able to trust only your race when you're a minority always having to look over your shoulder is a terrible setup, and definitely doesn't inspire trust on a broad scale, as wmr implied earlier.

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Hard to see how you can make a definitive statement about a time, contrary to mine, when you didn't live in that time period, and I did. Just sayin.

I really don't care if you think black people thought they were safer back in the day. It's an erroneous notion.

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The assertion had no racial connotations or overtones.

It didn't have to to be erroneous from a racial standpoint. You're taking umbrage with the fact that I used a racial perspective to refute wmr's statement, as if doing so detracts from its validity. That's an intellectually disingenuous tack on your part.

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Which was an 1896 ruling, and by your admission overturned in the 50's. Still not in relation to the 60's or the 70's.

You do realize that Brown v. Board was only the first of such overturnings, correct? And it was met with plenty of resistance and subsequent rulings well into the 60s and 70s, which was the time frame I was discussing with wmr before you jumped in half-cocked.

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And again.. you cite a 50's ruling, nothing to do with living in the 80's

Again, it's like you have no concept of context within a thread.

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. I would simply argue that the trailing off of many prejudiced and state supported actions were happening in the 80's. And many are beginning now, under the guise of "safe places". Prejudice and racism is the same no matter how you try to dress it.

Racism is racism--I was discussing the scope of the same. AA today is nowhere near the pervasive scale of systemic racial segregation across the board. Trying to argue otherwise is victimhood at its finest.

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I've seen race relations digress a great deal from what they were just 30 yrs ago.

And yet you also say race relations are the best they've been in many respects. You can't have it both ways.

We're obviously trending in the right direction with race relations. Don't let sensationalist media mislead you.