[wardaddy]

do all conservatives here think the CRA of 1964 was a good thing?

[metesky]

No. The CRA of '64 was, as many laws are, well intentioned, but it opened the door to many unintended consequences, most of them bad.

One of the worst being certain private property declared "public accomodations" and the owner losing all rights to what can and cannot be done on his own property.

[STONEWALLS]

“do all conservatives here think the CRA of 1964 was a good thing?”

.....they’ve been taught that by liberal educators that weren’t even around then.....to question it is heresy.....we need to BRING BACK literacy tests and poll tax too.....anybody here ever pay poll tax?....want to take a guess at what it was?....it was $2.00 and that was for a 2 year election cycle.....want to know what the literacy test was?....the registrar handed me a piece of paper and said ;read this and tell me what it means”....then I read the 5th Amendment to him and said “I don’t have to testify against myself”....and that was all you had to do in Georgia pre-CRA to register...really racist, huh?

.....and BTW the CRA was in the summer of '64....that was the high point of CR optimism....the next summer Watts went up, then Cleveland, Detroit, Philly, Newark, Baltimore, Washington and Chicago...

[Colonel Kangaroo]

do all conservatives here think the CRA of 1964 was a good thing?

I think had there been a civil rights act passed in the 1860s-70s there never would have been a need for the flawed CRA in 1964. Even such a conservative like Barry Goldwater saw merits in some provisions of the CRA of 1964, he just could not accept the whole thing.

[no dems]

I can’t answer for all conservatives on this website.

[Riverman94610]

Was the CRA of 1964 a good thing?Yes,Yes and Yes.
One could make a legitimate argument that certain provisions did violate the right of business owners to run their businesses as they saw fit.I don’t know if this is your point of view so I’m not putting words in your mouth.
But it was simply immoral and a disgrace to this great nation to have a dual system where one group was kept apart from the other by state fiat.The Feds should never have HAD to intervene.There should never have been Jim Crow in the first place.