The truth has become the new pornography. Prior to the “civil rights movement”, blacks enjoyed the same social mobility and legal protections as anyone else, had access to education, built businesses, and raised traditional families. After the “civil rights movement”, the US black population had a nuclear bomb of dysfunctionality dropped on it. They jam our prisons, cause most crime, and form large festering globs of intergenerational poverty in large cities that are orders of magnitude worse than anything prior to “civil rights”. Even without inferring causality, any rational person would say “hmmmm”.
“Prior to the “civil rights movement”, blacks enjoyed the same social mobility and legal protections as anyone else, had access to education,” - - Not Hardly.
But, as people have pointed out, LBJ’s War on Poverty resulted in more poverty and more disfunction. I would also add that the ‘60s counter-culture did enormous damage to the AA community. Middle class white hippie kids could get out of drug busts while the people they bought drugs from in the inner city could not. Same for the draft.