Posted on 05/21/2010 11:32:56 AM PDT by albie
My 16 year old daughter has suddenly and with the most coincidental timing been asked by her history teacher to write a paper on the effect the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" has had on America today. I know what the teacher is looking for, but I want to be sure I teach my daughter the truth.
I'm asking for bullet points on the effect this act really had on America. Your help would be most appreciated!
And Hubert Humphrey PROMISED there would be no “affirmative action” in the application of the law. Uh huh.
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Another reason why when I have kids they’ll most likely be homeschooled.
The hysteria shown by Leftists on this thread; hysteria over anyone who does not believe that the Federal Government has a right to tell people that they can not prefer to hire people who share their religious values, or a common history, or whatever else may be important to them, tells us a lot about the absurdity of the Leftist value system. Fine, let us get on with the debate. We know some of you can call names. Do you have a valid argument?
When you agree to pay a man wages or salary, to be bound by their actions on your behalf--including ones that may get you sued--the say as to who you hire should be yours, not some bureaucratic agency. People who respect themselves, will respect your right to run your own business, to run your own property; even if it means preferring to work with people who agree with your values. (Imagine that!). And who with self-respect would want to force someone to hire them, against that employer's will? Not conducive to a warm & happy business relationship.
One other point, generally overlooked. The forced hiring policies incorporated in the so-called Civil Rights Act, also apply to "National Origin." They are the reason, many employers cannot feel safe, screening employees for whether they are legally in one of the United States. Could there be a more absurd idea than an American Law that makes it illegal to give preferential treatment to an American job applicant?
This is the lunacy that the Left has wrought in America. And understand that it is the Left, not any particular minority. The wise Negro Leader, Booker T. Washington, urged precisely the opposite approach to hiring. He urged Southern employers to give preferential hiring to their Negro neighbors, over the new immigrants, coming in form outside. What could possibly be unfair in that?!
William Flax
Yahoo keeps filtering this out, which suggests that I have threatened their purpose in running a thread intended to embarrass Rand Paul and the Tea Party folk.
I may be wrong on this, but was it the civil rights act debate that brought about the famous speech by Daniel Moynihan, regarding the destruction of the American family. It was one of the prescient speeches you can read.
Consider her report incomplete until she documents what part Senator Everett Dirksen played in passing the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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I found it. It was not in the Act’s debates, but rather a report afterwards. The thesis of the paper was that without equal access the black family would continue to disintegrate and the single parent mother would be come the prominent family structure—leading to poorly educated and depended children. And the spiral would continue for generations. Sound familiar.
A link to the report from 1965 is here:
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/webid-meynihan.htm
Affirmative Action is reverse-racism and very unfortunate...
- Republicans introduce such an act in 1955 and 1957 and it was shot down by Democrats.
- After the rioting in the early 60s, President Kennedy thought perhaps it was time for the Civil Rights Act and he drafted a 1 page act that went nowhere.
- After Kennedy LBJ took up the effort against the wishes of the Democratic Party but with the support of the Republican Party.
- The Democrats tried to stop the Act and even filibustered it. The final version the the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was drafted by Republican Senator Everett Dirksen and the Republican voted some 80% for passage while Democrats only mustered up about a 50% vote for passage.
- Al Gore's dad, Senator Gore tried his hardest to thwart the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The South was almost entirely Democrat at the time. I do not know how many House members were Republicans, but of the 22 Southern Senators, only one was a Republican. He was the only Republican to join 21 Democrats in their filibuster against the bill. But overall, 81% of Republicans voted in favor in both Houses.
While I agree that there was good intent for the CRA of 1964, I also can’t help but see the tremendous negative impact it had on black-/minority-owned businesses. [BTW - Your daughter should also include in her research the coincidental impact of the “War on Poverty” and the welfare systems that came into their own around the same time, because I think they do go together.]
I know: that sounds terrible. But think about it - prior to the CRA of 1964, blacks could only patronize black-owned establishments, unless they were willing to undergo the humiliation of the ‘colored counters.’
As a result, a lot of blacks HAD businesses - successful businesses - as well as a strong work ethic and belief that through hard work, initiative and perseverance, they could accomplish anything, even in the face of apparently insurmountable obstacles.
Once the CRA had been enacted, you had black folks heading into white areas in droves to participate in what they previously had been unable participate in - which decimated the customer base for black-owned businesses. No self-respecting white folks would go into a black-owned business, and if the blacks themselves wouldn’t shop there, there went your business. How were these business owners to make a living?
Add to that the welfare game, which paid people to not work and paid women to have babies even though they were not married to the father of their children, and you eliminate the central strength of the there-to-fore upwardly mobile class: the strong nuclear family. No father figures to shape and guide their children’s characters - because fathers were no longer necessary, and thus, no longer respected in the home - and no strong role models for young men, which resulted in the utter decimation of the black family.
At least in Detroit. And probably Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, Philedelphia, D.C. .....
It’s a shame that people had to be forced to do what is right in the first place, but at the same time, misguided compassion can kill and maim as surely as intentional malice.
Let us know how your daughter’s report turns out (or turned out - in case I’m too late!!)
No no no just have them know the facts and stand up to lies from teachers! It’s what I do!
I respect that, I did that in my college days. But I was home schooled ;)
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