My Community During Segregation and The Great Migration

Introduction
Segregation lasted from 1896-1954 by law.  This was the time of Jim Crow and Black Codes.  There were several drawbacks and upsides to segregation.  The Great Migration is when a large percentage of my tribe moved to the North.  It lasted for 54 years.  They did this to escape terrorism and get factory jobs.

Timeline
Reconstruction started right after the Civil War, right b4 segregation.  Members of my tribe became politicians and a lot of them voted.  They were protected by the army, because white southerns wanted to harm them.  Democrats and Republicans made a deal.  The deal was to remove the troops in the South and allow a Republican to become president.

Segregation became legal in 1896 after the Plessy v. Ferguson case.  Plessy was man that was mostly Caucasian and little African.  He was known as a Octoroon and he lived in Louisiana.  In Louisiana Blacks and whites had to sit in separate railway cars.  Plessy got a first class train ticket, so he sat in the white only section.  He was told to leave, but he wouldn't.  He was arrested by a detective.  After that he had a trial.  It went all the way to the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court came up with separate but equal.  The idea was Blacks and whites can live separately with equal amenities.  The problem with that was it was never equal and it still ain't.

Jim Crow laws were enacted after the Supreme Court decision.  During this time there laws called the black codes.   These laws restricted the freedom of my people.  Members of my tribe had to sign farming contracts, if they didn't they were arrested and put back into slavery.

Segregation came to end somewhat after Brown v. Broad of Education.  The Supreme Court saw segregation in schools and maybe other areas as unconstitutional.  The problem with segregation wasn't separation it was unequally.  Black institutions received less government funding than white institutions.  Separation was good for my people.  I'll explain that in detail later.  No group of people should be around another group that oppressed them 4 centuries and continues to do it today.   

Upside of Segregation
Entrepreneurship: There were more black bizznesses during segregation.  After integration the Black dolla went to white bizznesses.

Family: During segregation most Black babies were born in wedlock.  Black marriage was even more common than white marriage.  Today the opposite is true.  When welfare turned on, Black men couldn't stay with Ebony women.  So, that led to the disintegration of the Black family.

Employment: Most Ebony women stayed home and raised the kids during segregation.   More Black men were employed @ this time, then today.  That was because there were more Black bizzness owners.  Since a lot black men became unemployed after integration, some of them became criminals so them could survive.  "My stomach hurt, so I'm looking 4 a purse to snatch."  During segregation there was less crime in the Black community because men were more employed.  There were more stable households, more community involvement, more unity, more love, etc.

The Downside of Segregation
I guess racism was thicker then and it was unequal.  Now it is still unequal, but now we can grin in the face of barbarians.  This shit makes me mad as hell!!!!!!!  Segregation wasn't a problem.  Racism is and always will be.  Laws should have been created to counteract racism.  If that was done away with segregation would drop naturally.  Segregation was enacted mainly because white men were afraid Black men would make babies with white women.  African genes are dominant and Caucasian genes are recessive.  A lot white people want to remain lilly white, even though they are ashamed of it.  Feeling like this is a mental illness as while as racism.      

The Great Migration
Members of my tribe (African American) moved from southern states to northern states in large numbers.  Millions of my people left the south.  Most went north, but a significant # of them went west.

My maternal grandfather moved to the north so his children could have a better life.  My people experienced a lot more terrorism in the south than the north.  Studies show white people become more racist when the Black population become 10% or more of the total population in the areas they live in.  Lynching were more common in south than the north.  Sometimes lynchings were ritual human sacrifice; sometimes a Catholic priest would attend.

Another reason why we moved north was for jobs.  There many factory jobs in the north.  As my people moved into cities white people moved into suburbs.  The wonders of integration.  Different ethnic groups of ceps (Caucasians of European Persuasion) battled each other in the cities.  The Italians, Irish, Ashkenazi and other ethnic groups battled each other.  Sometime last century these ethnic groups became white people.  Originally they were non-white.  These groups of people who started off as enemies came together because they had greater hatred 4 my people than each other.

Conclusion
My people are better off not being around people that hate them.  History proves this point.  Segregation is no longer law.  Now its by chose.  My people shouldn't want 2 be around people that don't want 2 be around them.  To escape racism stay as far as you can away from white people and anyone with their consciousness.               

References
Segregation Timeline
The Evils of Integration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mcountry/ac399011017.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson
https://racialinjustice.eji.org/timeline/
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes
http://www.crf-usa.org/brown-v-board-50th-anniversary/southern-black-codes.html
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-segregation
Holy Lynchings