In July of 1967, after race riots gutted Newark and Detroit, requiring troops to put them down, LBJ appointed a commission to investigate what happened, and why.
The Kerner Commission reported back that “white racism” was the cause of black riots. Liberals bought it. America did not.
Richard Nixon said of the white racism charge that there is a “tendency to lay the blame for the riots on everyone but the rioters.”
The Nixon-George Wallace vote in 1968 was 57 percent to Hubert Humphrey’s 43. In 1972, Wallace was leading in the popular vote in the Democratic primaries, when he was shot in Laurel, Maryland. In November of 1972, Nixon and Agnew swept 49 states.
Among the primary causes of the ruin of FDR’s great coalition, and the rise of Nixon’s New Majority, was the belief in Middle America that liberals were so morally paralyzed by racial guilt they could not cope with minority racism, riots and crime.
And so they lost the nation for a generation.
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Comparing 67' to now is apples and oranges. Not one serious commentator on the topic has tried to justify Ferguson rioting or say the riots were caused by whites. Protests, YES, rioting, no. Take a good hard look back at pre 67' and you'll see that conditions were quite different from now. Back then, yes, blacks had all the reason to be angry enough to riot. For those that disagree, please remember you are the same ones talking trash about armed revolution just because this president passed Obama care. Lol
ReplyDeleteNot white racism, but black entitlist attitudes and actions not being tolerated by civil society.
ReplyDeleteYou want to be accepted in to a society, you have to become part of that society - don't expect that society to change to what you want!
Amen 9:57! The only problem is many of them aren't mentally capable of doing so. They're begin suppressed by their own.
ReplyDeleteThought's on segregated community's ?
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