Yes, your sentiment and analogy are accurate. But the timeline is a bit off: the conservatives started dismantling that house brick by brick immediately in the mid 1960s. By the end of the 80s it was weakened, but Reagan emboldened those conservatives who came along and sledgehammered most of the bricks. By the end of his term and his VP Bush who took over, black income, heading towards parity plummeted while white income kept rising, widening the gap and reversing 2 decades of gains for blacks. Starting in 1982, a drug epidemic was created when drug use was heading down, and his white policies jailed 3 million black Americans. Integration was shutting down and only 10 percent integration had been achieved by the Brown decision in 1954, the EEOC was gutted under Clarence Thomas who he installed in the 80s making it ineffective, and affirmative action now has been destroyed. I’m only saying I’m sure how many bricks remain on the foundation to knock out.