To be black and conscious of anti-black racism is to stare into the mirror of your own extinction.
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"White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deluded--about themselves and the world they live in. White people have managed to get through their entire lifetimes in this euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac." James Baldwin
I do not think integration was a complete failure, but we are experiencing the ill effects that the segregationist warned about - dumbing-down of the society.