“integration was forced in my community at the time”
How did they FORCE integration on you?
I may have used too strong a word. The laws under which I lived at the time prescribed busing of inner city students into the suburban school I attended.
Even when segregation was prohibited, whites still lived in white neighborhoods and blacks still lived in black neighborhoods so while schools were not purposely segregated, they still remained largely homogeneous. The Feds and the social engineers just couldn't tolerate that so they used lawsuits to force school districts to bus blacks into white neighborhoods and occasionally visa-versa. This forced integration of poor (monetarily, scholastically, and behaviorally) students into nice schools was a large factor in the flight of the middle class into suburbs.