Why, yes. And your point is?
My point is, the old race films showed a black society that had grown up and, to some extent, thriven if not prospered, under the worst of hardcore Jim Crow laws. Even given social and legal inequality of the two societies, black (or "colored", as people preferred to say) society was moving ahead, just as Bookerism had promised for three generations that they would.
That was before the liberals and the Bolsheviks got "a-holt" of them.
My point is that blacks in America went straight from being supervised and kept in line by whites, to being largely dependent on the welfare state. There was never any period where they basically stood on their own and demonstrated what I mentioned earlier.
Incidentially, I just happened to come across this in a comment on another article:
5 December 1957
“Some Things We Must Do,” Address Delivered at the 2nd Annual Institute on Nonviolence
Montgomery, Ala.
“Now we must admit that we have some weaknesses (Yes) and some shortcomings (Yeah), and we must seek to gain the respect of others by improving on our shortcomings. (Yes) Now I realize, and I want to say this quickly, because I see a reporter here and I don’t want to be misquoted. I want to say quickly that I realize that these standards in which we lag behind, whether they are cultural, whether they are moral, criminal, or what not, they are like they are because of segregation; I know that. (That’s right, yeah) They are here because of segregation (Yes); segregation is the causal factor.”
“Let us be honest with ourselves, and say that we, our standards have lagged behind at many points. Negroes constitute ten percent of the population of New York City, and yet they commit thirty-five percent of the crime. St. Louis, Missouri: the Negroes constitute twenty-six percent of the population, and yet seventy-six percent of the persons on the list for aid to dependent children are Negroes. We have eight times more illegitimacy than white persons. We’ve got to face all of these things. We must work to improve these standards. We must sit down quietly by the wayside, and ask ourselves: “Where can we improve?”