^^Actually, I should word that differently, because it's not true that the gains since slavery have evaporated. What has happened is that some gains have been made while other things are even worse than during slavery. One example is how the black family survived everything, survived slavery, survived Jim Crow, but did not survive welfare and the drug war and more indirectly victimization politics. Also, there certainly have been gains since slavery, but many of those have been lost. An example is how many black areas got a whole lot better after slavery yet are today ghettos. Harlem, for example.
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