I will give a tentative "Yes" to your question. I think it would be unwise to try to repeal the civil rights demonstration, but I would like for it to be narrowly interpreted in ways that would prohibit affirmative action and racial reparations, and not inhibit the behavior of the police.
In 1944 An American Deilemma: The Negro Problem and American Democracy was published. It was written by Gunnar Myrdal. He was a Swedish academic who later won the Nobel Prize in Economics.
In his book Professor Myrdal acknowledged that blacks tend to perform less well than whites academically, and that they have higher rates of crime and illegitimacy. He claimed that these were due to racial discrimination, and predicted that when blacks were given equal rights most of them would begin to behave and perform as well as most whites.
An American Dilemma inspired the civil rights movement. A new edition was published in 1965. I believed on faith what Dr. Myrdal claimed before I knew that he and his book existed.
89 years after An American Dilemma was first published, and two generations since the civil rights legislation and the War on Poverty was passed into law those of us who are honest enough to look at the evidence can see that Professor Myrdal's optimistic predictions have not come true: blacks have not emulated whites; whites have emulated blacks, and black rates of crime and illegitimacy have gotten even higher.
In The Bell Curve, published in 1994 Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray admit that black academic performance improved until the mid 1980's, but that it has stagnated since, leaving a large race gap in all forms of intellectual performance between blacks and whites.
No Child Left Behind left most blacks behind whites, despite the large sum of money invested in it. The gains of Head Start are minor, and transitory.
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