Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Desegregation, before Brown

Ken,
 
A higher percentage of Republican senators voted to support the 1964 Civil Rights Act than Democrats.  So much for a party that hates Blacks!
 
Cherno
 
In a message dated 4/29/2013 8:44:38 P.M. Central Daylight Time, harrow@msu.edu writes:
i'd love for a real historian to tear this to pieces. i am a mere literary/cinema critic.
but i was also alive at the time of much of what is being described in this piece occurred, and a few thoughts on it.
it is true that republicans supported rights for african americans when democratics opposed them, until the 1950s. but the shift came as liberalism, inaugurated under fdr, continued with truman who integrated the army, turned the party's racial politics sufficiently that when kennedy ran, the dems began to embrace civil rights. that culminated with lbj. it leapfrogged forward with him, despite the horrors of vietnam.

the article identifies hugo black as a kkk, and thus reactionary judge. in fact he was the greatest liberal on the court, an incredible inspiration for change and civil rights. i heard him speak when i was in high school, around 1960, in my home town of mt. vernon. he was inspirational, and the most liberal justice on the bench. he had long left behind his youthful adherence to the kkk.
the article represents lbj as though he had not really embraced civil rights. well, what can we say? revisionist nonsense.
 this piece is interesting to me because it asks republicans to return to their earlier embrace of liberal racial politics, that is, to forget nixon's southern strategy, one which reagan, a true racist pig, perfected.
i would not look to the romneys of today for a reversal of the repubicans' southern strategy; i would not go back to goldwater for a model of how to imagine a progressive racial politics.
the republicans have a lot of penance to make. a lot of harm they have done for two generations now, a lot of progress blocked, a lot of true harm to the poor, to inner city people, to those earning less than a million dollars. that is the average income of the house of representatives now, the millionaire's home, let by the republican who intend to protect every penny of their rich constituents.
thanks mr goldwater, you were really great...but where were you when the fight for civil rights too shape?
here is the answer in wikipedia:

Goldwater ran a conservative campaign that emphasized "states' rights".[15] Goldwater's 1964 campaign was a magnet for conservatives since he opposed interference by the federal government in state affairs. Although he had supported all previous federal civil rights legislation and had supported the original senate version of the bill, Goldwater made the decision to oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964. His stance was based on his view that the act was an intrusion of the federal government into the affairs of states and that the Act interfered with the rights of private persons to do or not do business with whomever they chose.[16]

All this appealed to white Southern Democrats, and Goldwater was the first Republican to win the electoral votes of all of the Deep South states (South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana) since Reconstruction[17] (although Dwight Eisenhower did carry Louisiana in 1956). However, Goldwater's vote on the Civil Rights Act proved devastating to his campaign everywhere outside the South (besides Dixie, Goldwater won only in Arizona, his home state), contributing to his landslide defeat in 1964.

While Goldwater had been depicted by his opponents in the Republican primaries as a representative of a conservative philosophy that was extreme and alien, his voting records show that his positions were in harmony with those of his fellow Republicans in the Congress.


ken


On 4/29/13 5:29 PM, Toyin Falola wrote:

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