The people who marched during the civil rights movement and before then actually faced legitimate racism and in some cases, violent hate crimes against them, fully endorsed by politicians and other officials.

this does not happen today. There are no police and firefighters hosing blacks with high pressure firehoses. Minority kids are not being prohibited from entering certain schools. Blacks are not being lynched. There are no crosses being burnt on lawns of black households. There is no legal segregation. The paygap between men and women does not exist any longer. And as long as you can sign your name, you can register to vote.

lnstead, they say that anyone who does not want full blown amnesty, open borders, transexuals reading books to children in classrooms, abolition of the second amendment, and the destruction of statues that have been standing for over 50 years,, you are a racist nazi upholding white supremacy.

@Fred the Fish

@Fred the Fish legal equality is already a reality

you are campaigning for equity under the guise of equality

if all you want is equality, you can shut up now. You have it, now go away

Your kind have asked for "compromise" for at least a century, and when compromises are made you just escalate your demands and ask for compromise again. You will never stop, so your positions should be completely ignored and your "compromises" reversed.

https://www.neuroquantology.com/index.php/journal/article/view/1079/852

@Fred the Fish That passage from their decision is wrong, since in many states free blacks didn't enjoy the same essential rights as white citizens. But they were right, the 14th Amendment never gives Congress the power to legislate against that.

@Mord is on fire today

also,

@agag can you post something (ever) that is NOT antagonazing some one else ?

tyvm

@John Rebuttal Ok, I agree with NormieCamo that many people today pursue equity under the guise of equality

how

when was the last time a black person was lynched

when was the last time you saw a black and white water fountain

or a whites only swimming pool

yeah losing that legislation was a bad thing for Reconstruction but it's Congress's fault for passing it under the 14th Amendment

I don’t think any of us was born before the 1950’s to see any of that but yea it was a long time

You are an actual brainlet to say any of the things that happened during and before the civil rights movement towards blacks still goes on today.

>it just looks different

Let me get this straight then

the SCOTUS doesn't exist to legislate or make the most utilitarian decisions, it exists to interpret the Constitution, and the Constitution does not give Congress the right to legislate against private discrimination under the 14th

the good news is it does give them the right to do that under the Commerce Clause

which is what they used in the 60s

so a black child like Emmett Till being drug behind a truck because he was black is just as bad and the same as someone calling a black person a nigger or assuming a black person is going to steal

lt's the same because it's racism

This is your logic

under the Commerce Clause in 64

that was the major difference

the "racism" that exists today is a mere shell of what it used to be. To say it is as bad as the 1960's and before is such a ludicrous statement that even blacks that lived way back when they weren;t even allowed in the same restaraunt as whites, would disagree with you.

And if the US is such a racist clusterfuck then why not live in another country, or maybe a continent of blacks

You aren't even negating the points l made, you're just trying to dumb it down and say "racism still exists and we're still fighting what civil rights advocates did"

Even before l said that, you have not proved to me my points were invalid.

You pretty much just said, "yea they do exist"

l listed off some of the worst treatment blacks experienced in the early 20th century, and said that they do not occur today at all or not by the shear numbers they did then, and all you said was "yes they do"

The closest thing l can think of that most resembles segregation-era treatment of blacks is Rodney King's beating by LAPD in 1991.

for one thing, the 1875 act didn't even do anything. Nobody ever bothered to enforce it.

@Fred the Fish do you think whites should pay reparations for slavery and racism of the past