Jimmy Carter: Civil Rights Movement Unrealized, Americans Still Racist

opposingviews.com ^ | 6/5/15 | By Kathryn Schroeder

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Jimmy Carter: Civil Rights Movement Unrealized, Americans Still Racist

By Kathryn Schroeder

Former President Jimmy Carter said in an interview with AARP that the civil rights movement did not fully succeed and that many Americans are still racist.

“The recent publicity about mistreatment of black people in the judicial and police realm has been a reminder that the dreams of the civil rights movement have not been realized. Many Americans still have racist tendencies or feelings of superiority to people of color,” Carter said.

Carter has repeatedly spoken out during President Barack Obama’s terms in office about how be believes racism has led to difficulties for the president.

"When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds," Carter told students at Emory University in 2009, CNN reported.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I agree with him, a lot of Democrats are still racist.

[Olog-hai]

Never mind him speaking for himself too.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Says the anti-Semite

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why do the good brothers invariably die first?

[Bullish]

The stupid little bitch should shut his fool mouth. He makes an ass out of himself every time he speaks.

[Mastador1]

I was going to say, they erred in the headline leaving out the word democrats. Should have read American Democrats still Racist. But then this is Jimmuh Peanut, the man of the party of the klan, and the there has been nothing American he cared for .............ever!

[Maelstorm]

Jimmy Carter needs to go farm some peanuts. Something that is worthy of his intellect.

[SpaceBar]

Everytime I see this ancient liver spotted freak I can’t help thinking that the grim reaper is slacking off. Whisk him off the planet already.

[VR-21]

"Something that is worthy of his intellect."

That would be trying to see how far he can push his nose up some communist/muslim dictators ass.

[Charles Martel]

Perhaps Jimmy is part of another one of those “Devil at the deserted crossroads” stories that come from the rural South. Can’t imagine what talent he asked for in that trade, though.

[Viking2002]

When is this dessicated old fool's ticker finally gonna lock up and put us out of his misery?

[Not now, Not ever!]

50 years and 22 trillion dollars and all we get is the knock-out game? I think we see where the problem lies.

[American Constitutionalist]

Rev. Albert Sharpton’s little mini me speaks again.

Jimma why don’t you and your buddies in the Democrat party give all of your I’ll gotten wealth to the poor.

Get the board out your eye before you can help someone else get the speck out of their eye as Jesus Christ once said.

Ohh wait, saying where Democrats are wrong is Racist also.

[Forty-Niner]

Yes and the color of the racists has changed.

[Politicalkiddo]

Projection, pure and simple. A white, southern democrat calling other people racist is laughable.

[MacMattico]

With that $22 trillion we could pay off the debt with $4-$5 trillion left over. Carter says nothing has changed so that would have been the much wiser move. And over 50 years invested wisely that would be an astronomical amount.

[nickcarraway]

8 take this as a confession.

[a fool in paradise]

"When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States...as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler..."

FUMrCarter

The Left was A-OK with chants and smears of "Bushhitler" for 8 years. Even Mr. Obama's own personal agitprop minister (Shepard Fairey) created such works.

[ronnie raygun]

relevant then irrelevant now

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jimmah was bought and paid for by the Saudis some years ago.