Serious question about the safety of blacks, would they feel safer if they lived in their own community, shopped at their own stores and had their own police department?
It seems the blacks have been getting taken advantage of by the whites and used just like the Jews during WW2 as scapegoats for todays problems. It seems this would solve many problems having to do with profiling and police brutality.
But I can just guess, the whites would start wanting to shop at the blacks stores and go to the blacks schools and join the black police departments so they would ruin it.
Historically, that worked for about 15 years, from when the Reconstruction period began to the Jim Crow laws (1870 or so). Blacks were fine with living a segregated life, and in many towns they developed very advanced communities (by today's standards,) complete with its own transportation, banking, schooling and hospital systems; and with very little to no interaction with folks in the neighboring White communities.
By the late 1880s, with the influx of European immigrants,
Crackers went bananas once again and hence commenced the period know as the Nadir of Race Relations: Blacks folks, who were mainly rural creatures and in fact had moved EVERYWHERE in the US after Emancipation, were systematically and illegally removed from their homes/businesses in town after town during one of those race riots that are so obscurely absent from most historical talks about our history. There are more historical books dedicated to bullshit stuff like the kinky gay shit that Hoover used to engage in or Monica's semen-laden dress than the multitude of race riots that so heavily weigh our historical good intentions down.
In my humble opinion, if we peel the historical bullshit and the layer of good intentions bullshit story that has been perpetually placed on anything that smells like US history (I don't know of a single logical point of view from which you can opine that dropping nukes on civilians is a good thing, we did it twice and intended to do it three times or more,) we will find out that the post-Civil War period has undercurrents that are obvious to anyone who decides to go past scratching the surface: The Reconstruction politicians were suspiciously just as interested in expanding to the west and embarking on an empire-building bonanza as reconstructing a broken and destroyed country.
As far as Black folks are concerned, the only perspective I find makes sense TO ME is the one offered by the American Colonization Society, the folks that helped found the country of Liberia. With the US broken inside out, and good politicians being advised by ill-intentioned fucking idiots from the South, I have no doubt that the goal, INITIALLY, during Reconstruction, was to let Black folks move around the country freely. Then, little by little, with the help of the local authorities, hordes of uncontrolled civilians and even the national guard, they were to be slowly forced/purged into the inner cities, where they were to be placed in ghettos and under socially suffocating circumstances, bad enough so that they would make the decision to move to Liberia. Native Americans were subjected to similar circumstances.
The politicians didn't, and don't, understand that Black folks are American citizens who DO NOT want to move to Liberia. They still think of them as three-fifths of a human being.
