Posted on 05/27/2021 5:26:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
When did the civil rights movement go off the rails?
The answer is when proponents went from justly demanding equal rights to unjustly demanding equal results. As to exactly when this occurred, that's more difficult to answer. But consider statements, made five years apart, from the Kennedy brothers, John F. and Robert F.
Neither brother was asked about nor used the word "reparations." But during an August 1963 press conference, a reporter asked President John Kennedy about "special dispensation" for Blacks: "Mr. President, some Negro leaders are saying that, like the Jews persecuted by the Nazis, the Negro is entitled to some kind of special dispensation for the pain of second-class citizenship over these many decades and generations. What is your view of that in general, and what is your view in particular on the specific point that they are recommending of job quotas by race?"
JFK replied: "I don't think that is the generally held view, at least as I understand it, of the Negro community, that there is some compensation due for the lost years, particularly in the field of education.
"What I think they would like is to see their children well educated so that they could hold jobs and have their children accepted and have themselves accepted as equal members of the community. So I don't think we can undo the past. In fact, the past is going to be with us for a good many years in uneducated men and women who lost their chance for a decent education. We have to do the best we can now. That is what we are trying to do. I don't think quotas are a good idea. I think it is a mistake to begin to assign quotas on the basis of religion or race or color, or nationality.
"I think we get into a good deal of trouble. Our whole view of ourselves is a sort of one society. That has not been true. At least that is where we are trying to go. I think that we ought not to begin the quota system. On the other hand, I do think that we ought to make an effort to give a fair chance to everyone who is qualified, not through a quota, but just look over our employment rolls, look over our areas where we are hiring people, and at least make sure we are giving everyone a fair chance, but not hard and fast quotas. We are too mixed, this society of ours, to begin to divide ourselves on the basis of race or color." (Emphasis added.)
That same year, National Urban League Executive Director Whitney Young proposed a 10-year "domestic Marshall Plan" for Blacks to make up for past discrimination. His board of directors opposed it. The president of the Pittsburgh Urban League chapter said the public would ask: "What in blazes are these guys up to? They tell us for years that we must buy (nondiscrimination) and then they say, 'It isn't what we want.'"
Five years later, Sen. Robert Kennedy announced his candidacy for president. He said: "I run to seek new policies -- policies to end the bloodshed in Vietnam and in our cities, policies to close the gaps that now exist between Black and white."
"Policies to close the gaps that now exist between Black and white"? In 1940, 87% of Blacks lived below the poverty level. By 1960, that number dropped to 47%, a 40-point dropped in 20 years, the greatest 20 years of economic growth for Blacks in American history. Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down "separate but equal," was not decided until 1954. This sharp decline in Black poverty preceded the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
John Kennedy was right. We cannot undo the past. But by teaching Blacks to see themselves as victims deserving of "reparations" from today's white "oppressors," we can certainly make the present and future worse.
Arguably at least the Kennedys and LBJ did more harm than good to Blacks in America.
Demanding equal results is just communism. It is tyranny.
We have removed the laws which were used against blacks. Aside from Affirmative Action (which is a racist policy that should be ended) I cannot think of another part of our legal system that specifically targets blacks and tries to limit their success. Which is to say: We have Equal Opportunity built into the system. The structure of our society treats blacks and whites the same. What the Democrats want is social engineering to bring back more racism so that they can punish white people for things those white people did not do.
Am I a bigot? We have a Supreme Court Justice that was a grandson of a sharecropper, grew up in a one room cabin. We had a Negro, black President of the US, what wonderful examples for others to know all things are possible with God in America.
It is supposed to be "equal opportunity" - except that it isn't. Blacks and other non-Whites are given HUGE advantages in education and the job market.
The system has been rigged for years.
I saw this when my kids applied for college - they watched as POCs far below them in class ranking were courted by every major college in the country, including flying them in for visits along with a full ride, tuition and living expenses.
For my kids (daughter graduated second in her class)...nothing - except me paying full tuition for both - and my son not accepted by the college of his choice - although POCs far below him were.
“We had a Negro, black President of the US,”
No, we did not. Obama’s mother was supposedly white. Who his dad is is unknown.
Obama was black to the bone. His white mother was as black as sin
“Obama was black to the bone. His white mother was as black as sin”
Far from it. Obama was a puppet controlled by liberal white people.
If the government wants to improve things then they should just not interfere.
Everything and every piece of legislation they impose to improve racial equality only makes it worse.
‘Reparations’ is all BS unless the Muslim slavers who provided the slaves are targeted for reprisal.
Blacks to see themselves as victims deserving of “reparations” from today’s white “oppressors,” we can certainly make the present and future worse.
Larry Elder he’s always has good advice with reason for both black and white worth listening to his program.
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