Well, they did have intact families before LBJ.
I am so sick of these people. They just need to go away.
Clearly there was some dissatisfaction before Civil Rights or the movement would never have started. In some ways racial tensions have gotten worse since my youth, and in some ways they have gotten better. This bad economy is straining attitudes in many ways.
In other news Obama bankrupted us, gave our money to our enemies and destroyed our healthcare and future, opened our border to foreign invaders and then partied harder and spent more than any other President in history.
No Hollywood Reporter story...
According to lib theory blacks never smiled, never laughed, never loved their family or friends
The author has a ridiculous misrepresentation of what Phil said. But what the hey.
I read Si Robertson Memiors I got his book he talk about him and Phil hang out with African American neighbors of their when they are kids in last chapter of the book
I don't see anywhere he says blacks shouldn't have been granted civil rights.
He’s not saying anything against the Civil Rights Act. He’s saying that black people were happier before the entitlements of LBJ’s Great Society busted up their families and their culture.
When Phil Robertson (and I) were growing up, we knew plenty of black people who may have worked at menial jobs and manual labor, but they also went home to intact families. And there were jobs.
Keep in mind that the Robertsons were dirt poor then. He is speaking not in the abstract but from experience. He’s talking about people who were his neighbors and associates.
Phil and I grew up in the rural south, but the same was true in the cities. Neighborhoods were segregated, but families were intact and society revolved around church and their neighborhood business.
The Great Society and its welfare programs upended black culture and left us with the mess we are in today. Many motivated blacks took advantage of desegregation to get an education and build careers. Too many took the government carrot. Now we have inner cities filled with the unemployed, single mothers, and prisons full of young black men.
Sometimes the truth is ugly.
In my opinion, the blacks were happy, always kidding around.
They made the same pay as the whites did.
They were family men, hard workers, good workers.
I noticed NO chips on their shoulders like you see today.
The truth has become the new pornography. Prior to the “civil rights movement”, blacks enjoyed the same social mobility and legal protections as anyone else, had access to education, built businesses, and raised traditional families. After the “civil rights movement”, the US black population had a nuclear bomb of dysfunctionality dropped on it. They jam our prisons, cause most crime, and form large festering globs of intergenerational poverty in large cities that are orders of magnitude worse than anything prior to “civil rights”. Even without inferring causality, any rational person would say “hmmmm”.
So, he shares an observation and he’s full of hate. It’s a wonder this Chloe Melas remembers the segregated South better than Roberts, since she appears to be in her 20’s or 30’s.
Then, he quotes scripture and is a bigot.
I love talking with one of the old gentlemen in my church.
He grew up in a very rural part of NC in the late 30’s and was a young teen during WW II.
He grew up very poor and his family were sharecroppers. He talks about the sharecroppers who were both black & white, the land owners and the people who lived in the small towns.
Saturday afternoon all the sharecroppers drove their mule drawn wagons to the nearest small town to buy supplies.
He said the end of WW II was the death of sharecroppers. The land owners were able to buy tractors as factories started cranking out civilian products. Hundreds of black and white families were forced off the land.
Anyway, I’ve driven through the town and tried to imagine it full of mule drawn wagons.
I think it is another Paula Deen debacle if we don’t try to stop it
Chloe Melas is a liar. That's not what he said.
"Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”
-----------------------------------------------------
“He clearly knows nothing about gay people or the majority of Louisianans – and Americans – who support legal recognition for loving and committed gay and lesbian couples.”
Majority in Louisiana? LOL
I live in Louisiana, and I beg to differ!
He should quit while he’s ahead.
No that’s not what he said. Retards.
The majority of discriminatory behavior was in the larger towns and cities, not in the rural areas.