100%. Integration was just control. Money from Black communities were pulled into white institutions. Black school, hospitals, banks, business closed down. Black brain drain. Instead of building black communities, it became “escape” blackness to succeed.
The grand cost of integrating was autonomy.
My most woke opinion is that integration was a mistake. The problem with Separate But Equal wasn't the Separate part, it was the Equal. Because all things being equal, we woulda been just fine without em