Why Black People Are Mistreated In The South?

After World War II, despite the eradication of slavery, Black people were still ostracized and treated horribly in mainstream society, despite claims that they were free. There are widespread notions that Black people were and are treated terribly in the South but that when they move and migrate to other areas, the treatment ceases. The lynchings stop, the policy changes are better, and the micro-aggressions are nonexistent, but this is simply not the case. The idea that the South was the only place where Black people were mistreated is rooted in slavery, because the majority of plantations were based in the South. What people often fail to mention is how there were also slaves in the North and how the North greatly benefitted from slavery
They were displaced across the entire country and put into little pockets of spaces and left to fend for themselves on the outskirts of white communities. Because of this, there is a new idea introduced in Chocolate Cities, that the South is wherever black people are. For Black people, the entire nation is the South (Hunter and Robinson 2).
As a rule, Black people in America were never and still are not free, and this was reflected in the policy changes post World War II that seemed as if they were meant to garner them some rights, but really left them disenfranchised as a people. Black people were placed in communities as a direct result of their white counterparts not wanting to live near them. This resulted in redlining, or strategically not
I had heard about Black Wall Street before but never enough to get a full conceptualization of the community for what it truly was. Previously, I knew that Black Wall Street was a hub for businesses similar in that regard to actual Wall Street and I knew that it no longer exists. Black Wall Street was based in Greenwood, Oklahoma in the early twentieth century and became a hub for entrepreneurial pursuits of Black people leading to an accumulation of Black wealth, Black businesses, Black homes, and served as a beacon of hope in the country after oil was discovered in the area. We have many examples of strong Black leaders and communities, but I believe that none of them emphasized wealth accumulation and the importance of Black businesses like Black Wall