The “Civil Rights Act” should never have become part of American law, past “discrimination” notwithstanding.
Regardless of how the law was supposed to operate, its unintended consequence was to create entire groups (racial, ethnic) of “protected” persons with “civil rights” -greater than- ordinary (i.e., “non-protected) groups.
This is right out of Orwell’s “Animal Farm”:
“All the animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
What’s worse, another consequence of the law was the “discrimination industry”, headed by folks like Jesse Jackson, et. al. For with the creation of protected groups, there now became the need to seek out and “correct” every potential shard of “discrimination”.
And all the while, the discrim-industry, aided and abetted by the left-leaning education cabal, indoctrinates the young with the theme that if one is a minority, one must naturally be the “victim” of discrimation of the evil Euros, since the beginning of time.
And it doesn’t improve. With each groveling of the Euros before the discrim-industry, the caterwauling is never assuaged. Rather, it intensifies, for every time the Euros concede, that becomes further proof of their “racism” in the first place.
The final result is that after 50 years of the civil rights industry attacking racism, not only has their “business” not shrunk, but instead has grown. As they say, if you subsidize something, you get MORE of it.
And that’s what the Civil Rights Act does:
It subsidizes “racism”.
Want people to truly be equal?
Fine.
Then repeal the Civil Rights Act, which by design or default will forever prevent that goal from becoming reality...
As David Horowitz quoted, with the left “the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”
Civil rights was just another tactic for the left to push for more government power and control, which is why it has never been allowed to be settled law.