Change, backwards and forewards
As many of you are not Americans, and most of you are even younger than I am, you may learn even more from "The Meaning of Box 722" than I have. The post has something I have never seen published before: copies of the letters people mailed to their congressman, in this case in the mid-1960's. It's what people had to do before blogs and e-mail.
We are writing to you, and requesting legislation for a repeal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Act wil rob a great many Americans of their rights to property, individual liberty, freedom of choice, and enterprise.
This Act is the wrong vehicle, impracticale and undesirable, and we are bitterly opposed to it.
We also request legislation to stop these civil rights demonstrations.
Bits I (re)learned from the linked post:
To get elected, the torrent of evil and stupidity in the media, such as todays opinion piece in the major Washington Post newspaper. This is where the author, Anne Applebaum, pretends to care what foreigners think so that she can put racist statements into their mouths, since she does not have the brazenness to directly appeal to racists in America.
We are writing to you, and requesting legislation for a repeal of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Act wil rob a great many Americans of their rights to property, individual liberty, freedom of choice, and enterprise.
This Act is the wrong vehicle, impracticale and undesirable, and we are bitterly opposed to it.
We also request legislation to stop these civil rights demonstrations.
Bits I (re)learned from the linked post:
- Racism in America is not just in the South
- Civil rights laws caused massive and violent counter-demonstrations by urban and suburban whites:
Three days later 600 marched again in Chicago, against 10,000 counterdemonstrators. Some wore Nazi helmets. Others waved Confederate battle flags, carried George Wallace banners, Swastika placards that helpfully explained, "The Symbol of White Power." This was the famous march where Martin Luther King was hit by a giant rock, where he told the press, "I think the people of Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate,"... - Note that the main issue in the linked post is a law just about non-discrimination in rental and sale of housing, and is still the law
- Passing and enforcing laws that allowed African-Americans to vote and have such fair housing destroyed the popularity of the Democratic party from that moment to the present day
To get elected, the torrent of evil and stupidity in the media, such as todays opinion piece in the major Washington Post newspaper. This is where the author, Anne Applebaum, pretends to care what foreigners think so that she can put racist statements into their mouths, since she does not have the brazenness to directly appeal to racists in America.