As policy of the current federal government in 2025, the era of integration is over. From 1965 with the Voting Rights Act until the regime of President Trump, integration was the policy of the Federal government for 60 years. And American society stumbled forward out of its darkness.
Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was a man familiar with the pathological hatred of the South for the descendants of its former property now walking around "free." He wanted to bring the nation to terms with its enslaving and barbaric past. Dr. King wanted the opportunity for prosperity and peace for Black people within America's robust economy at that time. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and President Lyndon B. Johnson, both men of noble deeds, tried.
Many transformative movements germinated from the noble work of Dr. King, President Johnson and the brave stalwarts of the Civil Rights fight. The Civil Rights Act of 1964; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 were peace treaties inside America with itself. Growing out of the Civil Rights fight came Black Power and assertive Black consciousness; Women's Rights; Gay Rights; Senior Rights; the Kwanzaa holiday; protection of Children and the handicapped; Welfare Rights; the Million Man March; and Equal Opportunity as law. "The 3 Big Acts" made segregation and discrimination a violation of the law.
Now, after 60 years of integration as a practice, President Trump and his Administration are attempting to wage a war against commonsense and integration as normal American values. This presents an opportunity, which Dr. King would agree with, for Black Americans to bring into practice the profound and meaningful 7 Principles of Kwanzaa as Black internal racial policy and commonsense to strengthen its communities across the nation.
A good starting point is to rename the days of the week to coincide with the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa. No permission is needed to build a new mindset. Just willingness. For example, Sunday would be Umoja (Unity). Monday, Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) and so forth. In record time, this commonsense step builds on the work of Dr. King and the stalwarts of the Civil Rights era, despite the pathological attempts of the current Trump Federal government to keep Blacks down.
In America, laws can be changed on a whimsical notion. During his two terms from 1981 to 1989, Ronald Reagan, 40 President of the United States, dominated US politics with his right-wing mindset and policies. President Reagan was no Lyndon B Johnson. Reagan's first term ran from 1981 to 1985, then a second term from 1985 to 1989.
The policies of President Reagan chipped away at the protections and opportunities that "The Big 3 Acts" enshrined into law. This chipping away at the young Acts started less than 20 years after the Acts passed as law of the land in the mid-1960s.
In this writer's not-so-humble opinion, this new era of segregation requires a disciplined and profoundly meaningful mindset for younger Black people in America to thrive in this 21 century.