Don’s Reviews > The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy > Status Update

Wilson talks about how tensions rise between ethnic groups in society when the subordinated become disillusioned after periods of heightened expectations (70s black nationalism + separatism following 60s integrationism + civil rights) I am curious about the influence of the failures of the CRM to truly ease Black class divisions on the militancy and rise of Marxism-Leninism popular among the BPP

The heavy amount of statistics, while insightful, harden the reading experience a bit. However there are very intriguing theses so far. Some drivers of the worsening economic and social situations of inner city Black people in the 1970s could be the black middle-class exodus resulting from desegregation and the end of redlining, as well as the baby boom generation reaching teenage years