Integration

Integration. Do we want it? I think first there should be a clear distinguishing of integration and desegregation. It seems that desegregation is largely a legal matter, almost forced integration. Where integration is largely a social one, people have to choose to let people in, and that brings back up the question, do we really want integration? Desegregation is pretty much breaking down the Jim Crow ideas of the American society, whereas integration is providing an equal opportunity, but in another sense integration calls for the random distribution of a minority throughout society. Trying to balance the racial balance in areas such as occupation, education, residency, and the like. From the times of WWII the military establishment rightly understood that the breakup of the all-black unit would in a closed society necessarily mean more than mere desegregation. It was constantly used to describe the racial goals of society. Rarely, in the files, does it ever include much correspondence with the forced desegregation. I believe in integration to the fullest but, in this case, if people let it be a majority rules, and see if the 2 sides really do want the integration or desegregation if you will.