Do you have a credible reference for that?
Here is a confirmed "Uncle Tom" who parrots every sentiment that the average caucasion person does on this board. He is very popular with white nationalsts..
Jesse Lee Peterson Claims African Americans Were ‘Better Off’ Under Jim Crow | Right Wing Watch
to be fair, there are a lot of people who think that under Jim Crow, black people essentially had their own economy... their own businesses... their own banking system and that those things were lost when they were subsumed into white society.
Are they in part, correct? I don't know. It isn't my life experience to comment on.
Partially they are correct, but the fact is that during Jim Crow, there was separatism, but not EQUAL separatism.
The story in the link I posted quoted Petersen as stating:
"During Jim Crow, the black population was better off, because they did not have hatred in their hearts".
Speaking from experience, the black people who lived under that system were in fact very angry over the inequality of what was law during that era.
Were you there? What year were you born?
Yes. I was born in 1951. Remember traveling across country with relatives in 1964 and being refused being able to get served food, use a restroom or get a hotel room. Remember being told to leave a store when I tried to buy a soda and a comic book.
I remember my grandmother calling much younger white people "sir and ma'am" and then calling her ""girl".
I also recall being with my parents when they joined a civil rights march in Mississippi. They had urine and feces thrown on them. I remember being bussed to a predominately white middle school, and although I had made the honor role in my previous school semester after semester, the counselors insisted on placing me in "wood shop and metal shop" classes.
I recall opening my locker and sever times finding threatening notes and cartoons of monkeys in it.
I recall school instructors having a slip of their tongue and referring to the few black students who were bussed in as "******* that they had to put up with". I could go on..but I'm sure you get the point.