I've heard in the past few weeks how intergration weakened the black community, especially black buisnesses? This point was first brought to my attention in a movie called Mixing Nia, starring Isiah Washington and Karyon Parsons. And just last week the father of one of my very close friends was saying the same thing.

Intially i was like how could intergration be bad? Didn't it allow blacks access to things that were previously denied to us? What my friends father was telling me was that that maybe true but what happened was that it allowed whites into our communties to make money instead of spending money (at blue/jazz clubs). and took the money that was going to the the black buisnesses, mainly because people started going elsewhere to shop ie sears or wards, the big stores where we weren't allowed to shop.

I can see his point and am abliged to agree with him. You see the same thing happeing now, blacks more willing to spend they're money elsewhere than in they're communities. Is this an irreversible affect? I've always wondered how it is so easy for these middle eastern people to open up corner stores, and asians with beauty supply and discount clothing stores.

With this said.... the question still stands is intergration good or bad? At this point i'm not sure. Please discuss.

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arkitek

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