Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
Well I just want to ask you, was the Civil Rights movement simply a movement to "get back at the white man" or was it a movement to make all men equal?

If all men are now equal (or more so than they have been at any time in the past) then why are certain people punished severely for racist statements and others are just ignored or people let it slide......that is the main point it's not about "Poor poor helpless white people" it's about being equal.

North Carolina has probably the best centers for higher learning in the South and maybe even America as a whole.


But don't let my explinations and views keep you from your pompasity in your response
The south has always had issues with the civil rights movement.

Southerners will tell you that while whites and blacks can share the same drinking fountain in the south now, it was a dastardly act for the gummint to force all those good southerners to do what they'd never done before but would have been delighted to do, of their own free will, at some point. It's just a shame that the mean ol' gummint made them do it, thus muddying the issue. This southern line of reasoning extends to everything from the minimum wage to the Clean Water Act to the attempt to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. By forcing them to do the obvious right thing, gummint was leaning on the common people, and it wasn't fair. Heck, the worst thing about it was the suggestion that they had to be forced, by law, to do the obvious decent thing. It was true they'd never done it before, but they had been planning to get around to it, and probably would have done it five minutes after the law had been passed, if gummint hadn't gone and gotten its panties in a bunch. Now all they could do was bitch till the end of their days about the injustice of being forced to not lynch nigras when there was nothing good on TV and not pay their employees in shiny beads. Not that they'd have ever done those things anyway, but oh, the injustice of being told that they couldn't do it!

It's true that there are lots of racist crackers like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage who make endless racist remarks but they're never sacked or bothered about them, because the vast majority of their remarks go completely unnoticed. So it's unfair to bother one boxer over one comment when endless comments by commentators and pundits with national audiences go unnoticed all the time.