Georgia Rep. John Lewis recently said that, “If the Civil Rights Act was before the Congress today, it would not pass, it would probably never make it to the floor for a vote.”
As it’s currently written, the CRA shouldn’t have been passed even back then. It went too far by giving government more control over private businesses, and now we’re to the point where business owners are constantly having to prove their innocence in regards to racism.
Last year, I recorded a “Capitol 4th”, I think it was called, which was about the 4th of July celebration in Washington D.C. on PBS and it sure looked to me like the crowd was about 99.9% white and I don’t think that that is anywhere near what the make-up of the city is.
So, yeah, I’d say a huge constituency of Obama supporters who are other than white seemed to pass on celebrating July 4th in this nation’s capitol and I wonder what that might presage about our future because, if you don’t love your country, why would you ever sacrifice to preserve and protect it.