It might of been better when we were segregated.

I have no idea how life was during segregation or how it felt to be black back then, but segregation lead to blacks striving for better, not this bullshit that I see now. Our leaders were Malcolm X, Dr Martin Luther King, and the likes of Marcus Garvey and Rosa Parks. Nowadays with the exclusion of Barrack Obama where are the black leaders? We now have 2 Chains, the cast of Love and Hip Hop and Nikki Minaj. We have to look up to entertainers not people who actually had a cause or a movement or an idea. It seems to me that the ratio of positive blacks and negative blacks have changed from segregation to our present day. We had goals in the past, goals of equality that all shrived for. Today, what the hell we striving for? The government allows us to vegetate our lives away with a sub par livelihood; food stamps and public housing is just enough to etch out a life. When you want something you can't have, you fight to attain it. I believe that in the past there were more dreamers, wishers of a better life, dreamers of equality, a goal. As a people, we don't have a goals today. Segregation is just a word and today it still is. If the greater good can be achieved by hard work and dedication but a bovine existence can be achieved by just existing, the weak minded would choose the later.
We had a goal to untie us, we had a goal to reach for, now the safety net of government assistance is the segregation and is actually a safety web that hinders us from moving more of us to the top. We have become a side show, entertainment. We have to strive to be a basketball player or rapper to make it and the odds of succeeding in that is very low. Remember only the best can succeed in the world of talent and the word "best" in a finite one, there is not a lot of room at the top. In the past we had to fight to be an equal lawyer, and equal doctor, to teach whites, to do something that anyone could do with drive and determination. But now we wish to use our talents to entertain or just be stuck in the web of assistance. Ask yourself this question, what would Martin Luther King think about our generation? Did we work so hard to become a successful side show? Back then we dressed for success, we wanted to look like our counterparts. But now we dress like animals and you know what the say

"Clothes make the man" or woman. All in all I think our people of the past were more determine people because they had a carrot go reach for, now we have nothing to reach for because we are being held already.