vincentML -> RE: Second US mistrial in Ohio police shooting of Samuel DuBose (6/27/2017 7:46:56 AM)
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ORIGINAL: BamaD FR 13 % cant pass anything, The people who voted in the Civil rights act were white. The people who voted i affirmative action were white. Blacks and white (more whites because there are more whites) fought for it than blacks. If there were truly a race war we would have run out of blacks before I ever moved to AL. I really need your help understanding what you are saying, what 13% you are referring to. Do you think the American populace voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that only 13% of the people were black? AFAIK, there was never a popular referendum on the Civil Rights Law in 1964, and I don't know of any vote taken on Affirmative Action. How did Affirmative Action become law? Who voted to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964? Exactly, both were voted in by white congressmen, not something that is going to happen in a througholy racist contry that has been waging a race war for a hundred years. Don't forget that white people also passed the voting rights act, again not somethingthat happens in the middle of a race war. You cherry pick the things that back your position and ignore the (more numerous) things that show you are wrong. The Civil Rights Bill and the Voting Rights Act were passed because of the bus rides and diner counter protests of the Movement made up predominantly by black college students. The Bills were passed in '64 and '65 after: 1. The Supreme Court approved desegregation of public schools in 1954 2. Sara Parks sat in the front of a bus, 1954. 3. Emmitt Til, a young black teen, was kidnapped and murdered on the word of a white woman (just recently recanted) that he flirted with her. 4. President Eisenhower sent in Federal Marshals to deseg Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. after white governor Faubus blocked their entrance, 1957. 5. Black students sat in and were abused at a Woolworth's counter in NC 1960, and then other black students did the same through out the south, 6. 1961 bus trips lead by black students from Nashville tested the Law prohibiting segregation in interstate public transit. They were attacked by angry white mobs along the way and jailed overnight, and one bus was set on fire. 7. President Kennedy sent in 5000 Federal Troops to push Governor Wallace away from the door of the University of Alabama to enroll James Merideth despite riots and violence by white mobs, 1962. 8. Martin Luther King is incarcerated in the Birmingham jail, 1962. 9. Also 1962, nationwide television broadcast images of Bull Connor turning fire hoses and attack dogs on black protestors in Birmingham. 10 Also 1962, Medgar Evers, head of Mississippi's NAACP was assassinated in his own driveway. 11 Again 1962, 200,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to hear MLK,Jr's speech. 12. Again 1962, four young black girls were killed by a bomb at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham. 13 The 24th Amendment abolished the poll tax instituted by eleven southern states to disenfranchize poor blacks, 1964. 14 Three civil rights workers in Mississippi went missing to be found six weeks later murdered, 1964. 15 Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were part of a massive effort to register black voters in the south. 16 Then, LBJ signed the Civil Rights Bill into Law over the protestations of white Southern legislators, 1964. 17 In 1965, Blacks begin a march to Montgomery in support of voting rights but are stopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police blockade. Fifty marchers are hospitalized after police use tear gas, whips, and clubs against them. The incident is dubbed "Bloody Sunday" by the media. 18 Then, the Voting Rights Act was passed by Congress. You are fucking wrong in giving credit to 535 pasty white congressmen for establishing civil rights and voting rights in the 1960s. In 1968 Nixon became president on the wave of his "southern (bigoted) strategy" and many southern Democrat legislators switched parties. Charter schools are rolling back school desegregation and laws are being put in place to create obstacles to voting for black people. Racist America moving right along, keeping black people on their reservations (urban ghettos) and shooting the unarmed with impunity. America continues to be a racially divided country.
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