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entitlements are a political solution to a political problem. Jim Crow South wasn't just a custom foisted by racists. It was state mandated bigotry.Are you trying to defend the notion that Wallace, Thurmond, Maddox et al were either sterling Liberals or fought hard to ensure civil rights for Black Americans? really? Could you provide their bona fides as champions of civil rights?
Or, are you saying that they were not Conservatives? That Maddox, Thurmond and Wallace represented the left wing of the Democrat party. That they were champions of Liberal causes like civil rights, voter registration rights, environmental safeguards and withdrawl from the meat grinder that was Vietnam?
Wallace was a racist. In political terms he was in many respects ALSO a conservative, but that is incidental and apart from his political ideology.
The same could be said of Maddox and Thurmond.
You and guys like you love to engage in vastly over-simplified generalizations -- and many of you do that kind of short-cut to actual thought for a reason.
The truth is pretty simple. There is no NECESSARY correlation between political ideology and racism. If there are historical examples of some political conservatives also being racist, you are pretending to see some kind of cause and effect that doesn't exist.
Anybody worthy of the name "conservative" values liberty and equality of opportunity and neither of those things is in the slightest little bit consonant with racism.
By very sad contrast, you modern American "liberals" tend to mostly be stinking STATISTS. You value the authority and power of the STATE to accomplish for "the masses" what individual liberty and responsibility says people should WANT TO accomplish on their own. By granting to the STATE that kind of authority and power, you undermine personal liberty -- thus making oppression the totally expected outcome.
If one looks at just the RESULTS of the crap you people "do," it could almost be argued that you are vile racists. You find blacks in a disadvantaged position in society (due to the undeniable fact of past racial discrimination) and you and your ilk paternalistically "provide" FOR "them" as though you can't grasp the notion that blacks can provide very well for themselves if everyone is treated equally and the government would stop placing (or attempting to place) restrictions on our individual liberties.
Your contention that Blacks can take care of themselves very well ignores that basic fact.
And, since that bigotry was protected by state law, the citizens of those states were free to maintain their bigoted attitudes. And its those attitudes which are responsible for the poverty and unemployment rate among blacks. Section Eight housing vouchers, food stamps, welfare checks are mere stop gap measures redressing the imbalance of state mandated bigotry perpetuated by ideological Conservatives.
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