It was DEMOCRATS who fought against the Civil Rights Act, not Republicans.
Baloney.
But we need to bring back jobs to America.
We have been sending American jobs to (everywhere else) for over a full generation.
Bring them back. Now.
I’m confused.I always thought it was southern Democrats who fought against civil rights laws.
>> Because wealth is the kind of thing that is passed down generations and the kind of thing that grows and grows, this initial racist starting point has opened up a yawning racial wealth gap that simply cannot be closed without intentional policy aimed at doing so.<<
B.S.
I grew up poor — every dime of my wealth was accumulated by me — through hard work and thriftiness (things liberals will not abide).
If they are targeting generational wealth, then I damn well better one of the candidates for receiving.
“Comments?”
No.
On second read, I ask the same question of the author: How much of YOUR personal wealth have you spread?
Unless and until you give away 50% of your disposable income and give up all luxuries, you are not allowed to lecture ANYONE about “wealth redistribution.”
Is that not what the ACA is doing to the American medical profession?
Pop quiz - Who said this? “I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”
I see Matt Bruenig’s CommieCore history is shining through.
I’ll be sending in my latest redistribution payments later today. The federal portion will be repurposed and paid out to others in the form of Earned Income Tax Credits. The state portion will be used to charge up EBT cards and pay for subsidized housing.
My cell phone bill will be along later, and part of it includes a redistribution payment that allows the acquisition of Obamaphones for layabouts.
My health insurance bill is on its way, and my bloated premium and sky-high deductible has built in redistribution payments that pay for my neighbor’s health insurance.
The Salon author can go probe himself with something sharp.
If I said what I really thought my entire post would be bleeped out of existence.
He is right. If fact just about everything those evil racist segregationists warned about has come to pass.
tell that to:
Dr. Ben Carson
jay-z
beyonce
lebron
mj
kobe
boys in da hood
run dmc
chris black
al sharpton
jessie jackson
stevie wonder
etc
looks like folks who are willing to work, utilize their God-given talents are doing ok.
In fact, the Supreme Court decided in Minor v. Happersett that the states were free to prohibit women from voting regardless of the Equal Protections Clause of the then newly ratified 14th Amendment. The Court clarified that the 14th Amendment did not add any new protections to the Constitution, it just strengthened existing protections.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
And since women did not have suffrage before the 14th Amendment was ratified, they didn't have suffrage after it was ratified.
Note that the states responded to the Supreme Court's decision in Minor v. Happersett by ratifying the 19th Amendment which effectively gave women the right to vote.
Otherwise, the states are free to make laws which discriminate on the basis of anything that the states have not amended the Constitution to expressly protect, as long as such laws don't also unreasonably abridge enumerated protections.
The reason that many federal civil rights laws extend greatly beyond the rights that the states have constutionally authorized the feds to protect, just as corrupt Congress regularly oversteps its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, is the following imo. Corrupt federal politicians will promise anything to low-information voters, voters who have never been taught the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, in order to get themselves elected or remain in office.
The author is an idiot, but some surprisingly sane responses at the link.
There is economic discrimination. Anybody with money wears a target on their bank account.
Income redistribution is slavery, one man forced to work for the benefit of others.
Racial wealth inequality DEF: give me your money, I will sit home, eat, drink, sleep, smoke and fornicate while you work and make money for me. Im sick of the sick and we need to load the institutions up with these idiots when they open thier mouths!
We are on the verge of a true Communist revolution.
If you go to many major cities, and talk to people, they are all for it.
God help us, but someday soon the Fedgov will move against us en masse.