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The wage gap between black and white Americans is nearly the same today as in 1970.

If you're going to reply to people can you actually reply to then instead of editing your comment? You probably shouldn't reply to people who tell you to kill yourself anyway but the fact that comment is (presumably) deleted illustrates the kind of confusion this causes.

The 80s-and-on story of America is not a story of women and minorities getting on more solid economic footing at the cost of some additional costs for white male Americans. Almost everybody is worse off - higher debt, less property ownership among the youth, etc.

I wouldn't agree with a position of "white people aren't going to stop being racist, just separate everyone and let them be" (we could call this the Clarence Thomas position, as Corey Robin has written about[0]). But it's wildly misleading to say that the slippage of the American economy is because of less overt discrimination. It's universal. The economy itself is broken compared to how it used to be. (Personally, I'd point at the oligarch-fighting "soak the rich" taxes passed in the early 20th century as a key point here.)

[0] https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627793834/theenigmaofclar...

So your thesis is that the segregationists were right and there’s a causal link between the decline in conditions for white American workers and the success of the civil rights movement?

Why must anyone be content to be poor and equal to only the poor?

> Yet we do not pay poll taxes today. We are not getting lynched in the streets. We are not being directly racially discriminated from employment.

No thanks to the present government, who post about deporting slightly less than 1/3 the US population.

Not to justify this, but is this possibly the reason why those opportunities existed?