[Restorer]

Why is a man once reviled by the Right now celebrated by it as a hero?

Because the Right was wrong when it opposed the civil rights movement of the 50s and (early) 60s?

I wonder if the author is attempting to say that conservatives of the time were right. He never explicitly says so, but the article strikes me as vaguely Lottian.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Do you support state-imposed integration? (i.e. bussing?)

[CyberCowboy777]

As I understand it the Right was not against Civil Rights per say. There was a debate on the implications of “special rights” and the power of the Federal Government to force private citizen and businesses to comply with certain laws.

Protecting people from violence and forced labor was not the issue, nor was the issue of preferences (of whites) in public jobs and policies.

Are preferences for Blacks any more right?

Should a business be forced to hire or keep on an individual that it does not want? Maybe so, but we must then accept the consequences of reduced liberty. It is a valid debate and should not be demonized. Just as admission quotas today.