Posted on 09/04/2014 2:01:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The 1968 race riots helped to recast the politics of the country. But what happened in Ferguson was not a partisan issue, and it won't be fixed by helping Democrats keep control of the Senate.
In the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, race riots convulsed the country. Chicago, Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Louisville endured the worst of it.
Almost 50 years hence, you can still see where the damage was done.
Louisville’s West Side, which was an integrated community, is now monochromatic.
Some parts of Chicago’s West Side, where the rioting was the worst, are still not developed. Vacant blocks dot the neighborhoods, where businesses once stood.
Washington D.C. is only just now developing fully areas that were beset by the worst of riots.
The 1968 race riots helped to precipitate white flight from many of the major cities, and it helped to recast the politics of the country.
Richard Nixon promised to restore law and order in the campaign to replace Lyndon Johnson.
He campaigned with hard-hats, made an appeal to white ethnics and competed with George Wallace for the Bubba vote.....
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Ferguson needs to be investigating H0lder.
What’s interesting is how applicable many comments made in the ‘68 campaign apply even more accurately to the actions of today’s government.
Detroit (from 1967)
This is a good sign.
When the MSM publishes articles with these question-type headlines, it often means they know things aren't going to turn out the way they want.
However, the author's Nixon replacing Johnson, Johnson saw the writing on the wall, and chose not to run, and RMN squared off against Hubert Horatio Humphrey, a great spender of OPM, and unfortunately didn't live long enough to eat his hat.
At least.
At least they’re no longer pretending the current state of race relations in America no longer has anything to do with justice.
trying again: At least they’re no longer pretending the current state of race relations in America has anything to do with justice.
How can it work? The administration in charge is democrat. How can the Republicans be accused of anything with the democrats in charge?
It might work in that particular area, but nationally... it may actually hurt democrats, as scared whites go to the polls in droves.
Finding the statistic that only 23% of the population of Ferguson bothers to vote certainly explained, to me, the cause of the riots: if you will not vote, it isn’t your government.
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