Is there something wrong with this?
"Executive Order 10925 makes the first reference to "affirmative action" (1961)
President John F. Kennedy issues Executive Order 10925, which creates the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and mandates that projects financed with federal funds "take affirmative action" to ensure that hiring and employment practices are free of racial bias."
"Civil Rights Act signed by President Lyndon Johnson (1964)
The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin."
These are from 50+ and 48 years ago. What is wrong with the above programs? How were "the Blacks" the only ones who were helped by this?
There is nothing wrong with what you've highlighted, it's the law of the land, as it should be. But those 2 things aren't what I'm talking about. See my last post to rightwinger for more...
What did the "Reagan republicans" actually try to do to help the situation besides delivering empty rhetoric and campaigning on the "welfare queen"??? "Thus, Reagan repeatedly told the bogus story of the Cadillac-driving welfare queen a gross exaggeration of a minor case of welfare fraud. He never mentioned the womans race, but he didnt have to.
There are many other examples of Reagans tacit race-baiting in the historical record. My colleague Bob Herbert described some of these examples in a recent column. Heres one he didnt mention: During the 1976 campaign Reagan often talked about how upset workers must be to see an able-bodied man using food stamps at the grocery store. In the South but not in the North the food-stamp (see gingrich and co. with "Foodstamp President)* user became a strapping young buck buying T-bone steaks.
Now, about the Philadelphia story: in December 1979 the Republican national committeeman from Mississippi wrote a letter urging that the partys nominee speak at the Neshoba Country Fair, just outside the town where three civil rights workers had been murdered in 1964. It would, he wrote, help win over George Wallace inclined voters.
Sure enough, Reagan appeared, and declared his support for states rights which everyone took to be a coded declaration of support for segregationist sentiments. "
"More than 40 years have passed since the Voting Rights Act, which Reagan described in 1980 as humiliating to the South.
*My addition to point out the pig gingrich and his coded racial attack.
Opinion piece by paul the whack job Krugman
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