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Chris
01-19-2021, 01:21 PM
So why's the left still stuck?

What King and Others Wrought (https://www.city-journal.org/achievements-of-americas-civil-rights-movement)


...Thus, in a mere 20 years, the entire legal apparatus of segregation had been swept away, and blacks became fully citizens of the United States. As the older generations who had, in Oscar Hammerstein’s words, been “carefully taught” faded away, racism faded from the hearts and minds of millions of Americans as well. Racially, the United States had, at long last, become truly e pluribus unum.

What is most remarkable about the American civil rights movement, perhaps, is how little bloodshed took place, despite the passions that it raised. The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, lists the names of only 41 people martyred in the cause of equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

That is an astounding fact. Never in human history has so deep a national divide involving racial, religious, or ethnic groups been healed so quickly and at such a low cost in lives. For comparison, as many as 2 million people died in the violence that accompanied the transformation of the British Raj into Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India in 1947.

Today, a statue of Rosa Parks stands in Statuary Hall of the Capitol in Washington, donated by the state of Alabama. The Little Rock Nine are memorialized in statues on the grounds of the Arkansas State Capitol. And the only American national holiday observed throughout the country that honors a single individual is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Today nothing prevents an African-American from rising to whatever heights he seeks—as Barack Obama proved in 2008.

But the Left, stuck in the past, and always looking to belittle the United States and its accomplishments, insists that the country remains “systemically racist.”

RMNIXON
01-19-2021, 03:02 PM
An end to segregation and blatant discrimination made sense. Civil Rights are for everybody in case some of you didn't know. Just like judging a person by quality of character not skin color. That means a black criminal can be judged by conduct not just ethnic victimhood.

Today the left argue the opposite of equal rights. They demand blacks get special consideration in just about everything and can even ask for segregation to feel more comfortable.