The civil right movement failed, if we define it as an organized movement for the elimination of racial considerations in public and private policy, and as the expression of the hope blacks would integrate fully with whites culturally and economically.
And it failed for one primary reason: blacks developed a formally codependent relationship with Democratic politicians. Enablers are always happy to make excuses for their victims. They are always happy to applaud failure, while helping their victims rationalize it.
It is obvious beyond the need for debate in my view that Democrats USE black people politically. Obama dropped his G’s for negro audiences–people utterly unlike his very white self–but he had done NOTHING for them.
What I would suggest is that the more important reality is that of psychodynamic pathology. Needy blacks serve the psychological needs of rudderless whites.