I like to document my factual assertions. What follows are my speculations that can not be proved or disproved.
During the 1930's and early 1940's President Roosevelt and his New Deal were popular among most Southern Whites and working class whites. This would not have been true if civil rights had been on the New Deal agenda. Restricting most blacks to second class citizenship was an open violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment's. It also made it responsible for the United States to recover from the Great Depression and win the Second World War.
During the Great Depression and the Second World War 90% of the U.S. population was white. Diversity is not our strength. It is the underlying reason for the political polarization that makes it difficult for the government to solve problems - like the debt crises - that did not exist before 1964, or that were manageable.
The Second World War made the civil rights movement possible. After the revelations of the Holocaust fewer Americans wanted to believe that racial differences mattered, or that they even existed. The Nazi effort to exterminate the most superior race in existence led to the belief that there are no inferior races.
Also, blacks had contributed loyally to the War effort. Many whites had difficulty understanding why a black battle scared veteran of the Second World War could not dine at a restaurant that served white men who had not been in uniform.
Nevertheless, the rise in black social pathology since 1963 substantiates conservative arguments against the civil rights movements.
Let's keep the insults and the name calling out of this, and try to have an intelligent discussion of a morally complex issue.
During the 1930's and early 1940's President Roosevelt and his New Deal were popular among most Southern Whites and working class whites. This would not have been true if civil rights had been on the New Deal agenda. Restricting most blacks to second class citizenship was an open violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment's. It also made it responsible for the United States to recover from the Great Depression and win the Second World War.
During the Great Depression and the Second World War 90% of the U.S. population was white. Diversity is not our strength. It is the underlying reason for the political polarization that makes it difficult for the government to solve problems - like the debt crises - that did not exist before 1964, or that were manageable.
The Second World War made the civil rights movement possible. After the revelations of the Holocaust fewer Americans wanted to believe that racial differences mattered, or that they even existed. The Nazi effort to exterminate the most superior race in existence led to the belief that there are no inferior races.
Also, blacks had contributed loyally to the War effort. Many whites had difficulty understanding why a black battle scared veteran of the Second World War could not dine at a restaurant that served white men who had not been in uniform.
Nevertheless, the rise in black social pathology since 1963 substantiates conservative arguments against the civil rights movements.
Let's keep the insults and the name calling out of this, and try to have an intelligent discussion of a morally complex issue.