The civil rights movement came about because blacks had a legitimate case to make that the US was not living up to the principles and the text of the Constitution, especially those clauses dealing with equal treatment under the law.
Now that they are on the verge of what should be the capstone of the civil rights struggle, a black person taking the oath of office, what does it say when 90% of the black community supports a person who gives the appearance, at least so far, of being perfectly willing to to not live up to the text of that same Constitution?
Was the civil rights struggle not about the Constitution at all?
RE :”The civil rights movement came about because blacks had a legitimate case to make that the US was not living up to the principles and the text of the Constitution”
Actually the liberal history goes that the constitution is racist and sexist and liberal judges freed the blacks (from inequality) based on an evolving constitution. What is nice about this revision is it gives a moral rational for unlimited liberal judicial power. As Whoopie Goldberg said to John McCain, your justices would re-impose slavery, McCain’s response? “I understand that’s a concern”, did that guy believe in anything?
The Civil Right struggle was about Power....purely and simply Black Power