I would not call Bull Connor or the Klansmen decent, nor I should think Christian, though I’m hardly the one to say.
The civil rights movement worked because of TV, which brought the ugliness and blatant un-Americanness of enforcing Jim Crow into every living room, where it got the attention of the decent people who couldn’t countenance turning a fire hose on children or sicking a dog on a man of the cloth of whatever color. JFK also reluctantly helped. Without TV, nothing would have ever happened.
TV is now a dinosaur. The Internet is where you go to get decent people’s attention, and a good thing, too. TV is for fake news, and willful ignorance in the name of subversive narratives.
The white population of the 11 States of the Old Confederacy in 1960 was somewhere around 40 million people. One of them was Bull Connor. Most of them were not Klansmen or Klanswomen.
But you know that already.
The "civil rights movement" was led by Christian ministers and their pleadings had an overtly Christian and Biblical perspective.
But you know that already, too.
My argument is that IF the appeals of the "civil rights movement" had not had an overtly Christian outward appearance, resistance to it would not have evaporated so quickly. Which it did.
“TV is for fake news, and willful ignorance in the name of subversive narratives.”
See where the MSM cleaned up Schumer’s quote?
Schumer stuttered over “Trump”, then stumbled over “erection” instead of “insurrection”. Those errors were SCRUBBED—Soviet-style reporting!