My dad told me years ago that there would be a race war. I just chalked it up to him being a bigot. With the extreme factions that have developed on both sides I fear it's a distinct possibility. I can't predict who will win...but I agree, the Hispanics won't side with the blacks.
The sad truth is, blacks were doing well until The New Left started agitating the young men in the '70s and late '60s.
The area I grew up in was about 50% black, population wise, the communities were, for the most part separate, but we worked side by side everywhere from oyster boats to tobacco fields and industrial jobs.
I still recall one of the elder gentlemen of that local community telling my mother about agitators sent the 50 miles south from DC to stir up trouble. "We had to send them boys back home. They were down here trying to stir up trouble with our white folks, and we ain't
never had no problem with our white folks."
That relative harmony, along with plans to get a higher education through academic scholarships, sports scholarships, or serving a hitch and using the GI Bill, was derailed by a combination of agitators along with the assassination of MLK, Jr.
The mass media played no small part in that, as they continue to do even today, fomenting anger and hatred to keep that conflict alive.
That may have passed the tipping point where anything can be done to pull back from the abyss.
It would not surprise me to find out that that assassination had been orchestrated by more militant (Leftist) factions who did not want racial harmony and did not want blacks to succeed on merit. Black people have been getting played--all this, from LBJ's 'great Society' on, has been sugar coated turds, foisted upon them by a community of slick-suited grifters and militant Marxist types who gain personally, but do their people a grave disservice that as only been getting worse for the last 60 years..
