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To: Kaslin
The public accommodations and employment sections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, controversial when passed, were more successful than even their most enthusiastic advocates dared to expect. The justifiably draconian measures of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 resulted almost immediately in full enfranchisement of black Americans.

And 50 years on, how are things going?

2 posted on 03/05/2021 4:09:22 AM PST by Jim Noble (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Jim Noble

The Voting Rights Act isn’t to blame.

The so-called War on Poverty is.


3 posted on 03/05/2021 4:11:53 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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