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When integration costs black communities everything.

I didn't know.

Welcome back, No-It-alls, to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black

Effect Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled, I Didn't Know.

Maybe you didn't either.

I'm your host, BDOT, and I firmly believe that integration destroyed black communities.

See, integration is usually told like a nipsy hustle album, a victory loud.

Schools open, doors open, everybody moved forward.

But here's the question that I rarely hear ask.

What got closed in the process?

Yeah, let's open that case file.

But before we do, I've got three of the most useless facts you'll never need,

never, never, never, ever, not a day in life about integration.

Up first, after integration, thousands of black schools were shut down all across the south.

Your second useless fact, over 30,000 black teachers and principals lost their jobs in that exodus.

38,000, actually, between 1954 and 1972 is documented.

And your third useless fact, many black-owned businesses collapsed when black dollars were

redirected elsewhere.

Did you know those three useless facts about integration? Because I got... collapsed when black dollars were redirected elsewhere.

Did you know those three useless facts about integration?

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