Collectivism defined= One person does all the work and the others watch and take the credit
This nation was built on individualism and based on the writings of John Locke in his second treatise on Government.
It was also built on the 2 parent family you may have heard about it since it doesn't exist in your hood and what not.
There is one bright spot in history
Washington was a key proponent of African-American businesses and one of the founders of the
National Negro Business League. Washington mobilized a nationwide coalition of middle-class blacks, church leaders, and white philanthropists and politicians, with the goal of building the community's economic strength and pride by focusing on self-help and education. Washington had the ear of the powerful in the United States of his day, including presidents. He used the nineteenth-century American political system to manipulate the media, raise money, develop strategy, network, distribute funds, and reward a
cadre of supporters. Because of his influential leadership, the timespan of his activity, from 1880 to 1915, has been called the Age of Booker T. Washington. Washington called for Black progress through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to challenge directly the
Jim Crow segregation and the disenfranchisement of Black voters in the South.