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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
And that’s where I stopped reading.
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If you look up the Civil Rights Act of 1968 you will learn that it was only drafted as a response to the Detroit riots of 1967, but the GOP and the dixiecrats blocked it in congress and it would never have become law until Martin Luther King was murdered, but it wasn't the killing that changed things, for 8 days US cities burned, on the 8th day the GOP gave in and passed the law in a desperate attempt to calm the situation, that law is the basis of most of the advances black America has made since the Jim Crow laws, there would be no Obama without that act.
Do I like the fact that apparently the people that rule us don't do a thing until the rioting starts? no, do I want the police in the US to stop killing black people? yes, do I know how to square that circle? suggestions are welcome.