Today we are told that racial prejudice is the motive force behind most voters' opposition to racial quotas and preferences. But in fact the advocates of the Civil Rights Act were against racial quotas and preferences or reverse discrimination. During the Senate debate, Hubert Humphrey said he would eat a copy of the bill if anyone could show him words in it justifying discrimination in favor of blacks. Of course he was right: The act bans discrimination by race and racial quotas, and preferences are, by definition, discrimination by race.
***Right now aside from more current pressing situations in the news, I think the above is probably the reason why the CRA commeration pretty much went unnoticed. Anyone in favor of racial quotas and preferences would not be in favor of the CRA. You can't have both. Not in today's world.
Damn, that's fast.
Happy Fourth of July!!!!