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  • Hey I don't personally agree with racism of any kind but there's a little thing called private property rights. Telling a private business they can't hang a sign is no different than the federal govt going in your house and telling you can't smoke. These left wingers really have no clue at all.

  • If someone put up "blacks not welcome" in my neighborhood- well first, I live in Chicago, so fat chance. Second, I'd open up a store with a sign that said "racist not welcome and encouraged to die."

    LONG LIVE le PAUL

  • yes let them put a NO BLACKS ALLOWED sign up on their windows, then we can all know who the real racist are and not support their companies or businesses and they will go out of business, but its kinda funny cuz noone seems to be upset about uhm BET? a blatantly racist channel promoting ONLY BLACK ENTERTAINMENT, and yet its ok for america to look the other way or be called a racist if you call it out to be a one sided all black channel, so lets all stop fighting about the color of our skins!

  • I agree with Ron Paul and Rand Paul

  • Great report, now go off and suck the establishments big cock.

  • Only an idiot would put up a "no blacks" sign you would be turning away business from not only blacks but others would be turned off from the overt discrimination. You would go out of business immediately.

  • Did you not hear what he said? Government mandates created slavery, Jim Crowe laws, etc. This video reminds me that if you tell a lie enough, people start to believe it. That seems to be the angle she is working.

  • 1) Rachel did NOT report any of racist things Obama's preacher Wright said or criticize Obama for attending & listening his sermons for whopping 20 years.

    2) How can a full-time practicing MD write 14 newsletters?

    3) He disvowed them but Rachel repeats the racist contents once every few days.

    4) He is 1 & only 1 who would end or nationalize the Federal Reserve.

    Just like all other TV pundits, Rachel NEVER talks about the Federal Reserve & the Glass-Steagall Act (repealed by Bill Clinton).

  • This female needs to get a life.

  • @tocan55 male.

  • These muck gumps at MSNBC are indescribably pro-eugenics. The liberal left tries to make out like they are the friend of the black man, but the black man is not a chump for the gumps no more.

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  • I've seen this still in my lifetime in Florida, and I chose based on the discrimination I witnessed not to support that business. The government cannot dictate morality. Anyone think they really do a good job of it presently anyway?

  • @schtickles is you a skinny boy? I likes em' skinny and white and full of basting juices that make me feel all succulent...oh Lawd, white boy you gots my turkey neck fully extended...gobble gobble uhhhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  • @mooseyhole alright now.

  • @schtickles are you callin me a racist white boy?

  • @mooseyhole Are you a plump black boy? I loves me some round soft black boy ass. You know all pimply and sweaty. I just wanta make you scream....Oh white boy....then I'll take you out and buy you dinner and we can joke about you being my bitch.

  • @787hughes oh yeahhhhhhhh we can make hot sexy time jungle child style. les do it

  • @SixFootTallMidget

    Why am I not surprised you didnt get it...

    Oh and dont reply with another comment acting like you did because I dont care.

  • Yup! She is on it!!! :)

  • Jesus. No wonder TV addicts are so dumb.

  • What a shite reporter. Her job is to be factual - we don't want her opinion.

  • Every business has a right to fail on its own merits (or lack thereof). Any business who would put up a sign like that or have a policy like that would lose a lot of business, and not just from blacks. I wouldn't go there, either.

  • Thanks Rachael, liberty is no longer the issue just your perverted view of liberty.

  • if someone put up the sign nobody would want to go there.. it works - shut up bitch

  • Ron Paul 2012 

  • Yet you never hear anything about businesses already being able to bar people who smoke, people who are intoxicated, people who are homeless, people who don't dress a certain way, people of a certain age, people without the authorisation of some bureaucratic agency (think of prescriptions and the like), people with a criminal history (according to the state, because normally all so-called "statists" are criminals), et cetera.

    Madcow, like Krookman (her prophet), needs to just shut up.

  • The whole idea behind this is simple: CHOICE or FORCE. That's it plain and simple. Ron and Rand are saying the govn't shouldn't FORCE associations on people. People and businesses should have the right by CHOICE as to whom they associate with or whom they do business with. If those choices end up causing that business to go under or that person to have no one whom wants to associate with them, then so be it. Ron and Rand also believe we need to be responsible for our actions.

  • In this day and age, if an idiot puts a "We don't serve black people" sign outside their store, most white people would be offended by it, and only rednecks would go in. Not only that, but the store suffers a significant risk of going out of business, and a significant risk of physical attacks by the discriminated group of people. I mean, this is just a stupid argument against the idea of free market.

  • @givemearandomnamenow Do you realize how much of a racist you are by the the statement you made? "Only rednecks would go in" That's racist! "most white people would be offended by it" That's also racist. But yet you condemn Rand Paul. I don't think you have any idea of what racism is yet you seem to speak out about it.

  • @mikebri527 You're nonsensical.

  • @givemearandomnamenow No, and you're still a racist. You can't even understand what I'm saying. Anytime you identify some by a race and make blanket statements about them (i.e. rednecks would go into the store...most whites would be offended, etc.), THAT IS RACISM pure and simple. You can't even understand that the word "redneck" is a racists word. Anytime you see groups of people as something or another instead of judging EACH PERSON AS AN INDIVIDUAL, you are practicing racism.

  • @mikebri527 Nope you're are wrong. The term 'Redneck" doesn't refer to white people generally but a particular type of white person, therefore it is not a blanket statement about all whites. Redneck is a term attributed to a racist white American. Just as when you call someone a Nazi you're not referring to the entire German population but a person identified by a particular belief system.

  • @Gunt78 Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, you don't understand what I"m saying either. ANYTIME you use a phrase like "redneck" you are practicing racism. It doesn't matter what you define a redneck as it's still racism. That was my only point.

  • @mikebri527 Racism; 'The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as...' Redneck: 'Redneck is a historically derogatory slang term used in reference to poor, uneducated white farmers, especially from the southern United States.

  • @Gunt78 In recent decades, the term has expanded its meaning to refer to bigoted, loutish reactionaries who are opposed to modern ways and has often been used to attack Southern conservatives and racists. So as you can see it doesn't refer to the entire white race but a specific element and has been used to counter racism. when you use the term redneck everybody knows you're referring to a particular racist white person not the entire white race. Therefore it doesn't qualify as racism.

  • @Gunt78 Put simply Rednecks are not their own specific race.

  • i had to force myself to watch this whole video

  • I completely agree with Ron Paul. Why does a business reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for almost any reason other than race. A business would be stupid to put up a sign refusing a certain race but that is their right. I also believe it is wrong to have a law against smoking in resteraunt and bars....I prefer the non-smoking atmosphere but I dont think it should be a law.

  • @SixFootTallMidget

    YouTube sign: "No turtles allowed."

  • how can this woman get so fricked up===, is money that much of a god to her=====.so say the amount of people killed in the name of new world order(good ol USA)-==== for just one day would put a pile so high over her house that I don`t think that she could ever rest in peace another minute for the time she has on earth.

  • this woman is below hitler

  • i hope her life turns to shit

  • what a horrible woman

  • I know what your really doing, I wiil never watch your broadcast again ever, msnbc is the one corp that is pushing hate mongering and trying to discredit honest Americans, Shame on her and them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Rachel Maddow is an elitist b*tch. go f*ck yourself!

  • wow she really didnt think this through. what business would be dumb enough to discriminate against a whole group of people. that business would be gone if they didnt change their view and even if the did they would still have a bad rep anyway.

  • @thekidofva I would go places that said "no blacks", I don't see whats wrong with it.

  • @MammalAnonymous and you would be pay higher prices too lol.

  • Dyke.

  • I might not support a store if it adopts a racist policy. I would have to make a choice. Heaven forbid!  Save me from having to make a moral decision, Government!

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  • Busniess' should also be allowed to put up "NO WHITES" signs.

    Funny how she forgot to mention that part.

  • yes, it is ok for a business to put up whatever they want to, BUT who in their right mind would support that business? the adam smiths invisible hand in action..

  • @sniped101 I'm in my right mind and I wouldn't "support" a business like that, but it wouldn't prevent me from getting what I want from that business if their services/products were priced accordingly.

  • @MammalAnonymous they services/products would NOT be priced accordingly. WHY? Because logically, they would get less demand than a store that had blacks and whites welcome. Less demand = higher prices.

  • Supporting speech rights does not = endorsing racist speech, and supporting property rights does not = liking racist business. With free expression, racists can publish hate lit, but their ideas have to compete in the marketplace of ideas, they lose credibility, then disappear. Similarly, a racist business would suffer from boycotts/excluded customers n other companies will get that $ instead, n the racist business closes. if ppl use their freedom to be stupid, let them and they will fail

  • This bitch is for the establishment. Plain and simple! Get her...er, his, or her, whatever it is off the friggen AIR! She's a cancer to intelligence.

  • Hey Rachel! If a business put up a sign that said no blacks allowed, how successful do you think that business would be ? I'm guessing not very successful at all.

  • Hey Madcow, 1:37, that is NOT the implication. Where is your journalistic integrity, you false proselytizer?

  • The government shouldn't dictate who I can & can't allow into my house, why should it be any different for private business owners? If a store says they won't serve black people, their profits might suffer, but that should be THEIR choice to make. Most business wouldn't follow that practice. Those that would might be boycotted (by everyone) and end up going out of business. I doubt many would be willing to risk that. Like @EuroAmericanReich says-let them make that "mistake".

  • Ron Paul alll dayyy everyyyyyy dayyyy

  • IF ANYONE PUTS UP A SIGN CLEARLY DEPICTING RACIST IDEOLOGY, THE OWS CROWD WOULD BE OVER IN A JIFFY EXCERCISING THEIR RIGHT TO PROTEST AGAINST INDECENT ESTABLISHMENT PRACTICES ;))

  • Ron Paul believes in personal choice and freedom.

    If people don't want to serve blacks, then let them make that supposed "mistake".

    Better than letting bolshevik scum like this butch whore dictate social order in this FREE country.

  • it would be a good start ! Hiler was right 14 from Oregon.

  • Ron Paul is a Libertarian sort of Republican guy.Are you butch?

  • At lest he honest from get go, not like some others that change to suit themself/herself when convent

  • haha these comments make me feel good. :)

  • I like Ron Paul . . . and after watching this I still like him. Politically correct commentators like this do nothing to encourage people to think for themselves.

  • TRANSPARENCY. When you try to suppress reality, it simply manifests itself in new, often harsher ways. We SHOULD let nature take its course. what an ass

  • if i had a business back b4 civil rights i would put a sign that says no rachel maddow aloud or anything that looks or thinks like that cock sucking slut

  • To allow this would only prove how the free market works. How long would a business with a sign "no blacks allowed" stay in business? 3 minutes.

    We don't need more government regulations. We need to properly educate people about freedom.

  • @ironclad452 nice reply

  • Hey im a Moor some misguided people would call me black wrong! I think this woman is an idiot I love Ron Paul & will vote for him & I think that if some people do not want to serve others at their business thats ok with me! Listen up liberals YOU ARE THE RACIST! Europeans, Moors, Asians whatever should do what they want as long as they are not hurting other peoples person or property period! If businesses do not want to serve other groups well so what more money for those groups!

  • @yahshuah29 What's a Moor?

  • @zWzld all of those adjectives are actually appropriate and accurate. choice diction. stupid - she doesnt understand the philosophical point made or what would happen if one were to hang a sign like that. marxist - big government statist wishing for more laws to prohibit free choice. lesbian - just a plain fact.

  • I have never seen her as foolish as today, and to me she sounds as stupid as Fox news asking for Yes and No answers. I don't see anywhere in the title what your title says. Also the most the government can do is to prohibit discrimination, not enforce equality, because that would require a government micromanaged industry.

  • Wow she put a lot of words in their mouths.

  • The government enforced segregation and slavery. Did you not catch that, madcow

  • haha, the Ron Paul cyber-army reveals its true, ugly face. Racism, misogyny, and homophobia.

  • @SocialDemocrat1789 says the impartial one named "socialdemocrat..." LOLOL good one d00d

  • Fuck Madcow. A private business has a right to ban any customer it wants just like any customer has a right to boycott any business as well. Bars discriminate against males all the time and charge different prices, but I don't hear MessNBC bitching bout that. Bottom line is, the Free Market will punish the racists, we don't need bureaucrats and judges to do it. If you put an "No Blacks Allowed" Sign in a predominately Black Neighborhood, how long you think you're gonna stay in business?

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  • Who's business is it?

  • why are there so many comments removed here?

  • Rachel MADDCOW is such a bitch. She and the rest of mainstream media try every which way to make Ron and Rand look bad. They are threatening the status quo! Don't believe a thing that witch says! Rand was trying to tell her that it shouldn't be up to the government to dictate what a business does. Like any business would be stupid enough to put up such a sign! First of all no business wants to start that kind of trouble and secondly, they just want business!

  • so, according to Mr. Madcow we would not have dress codes either?

  • There wouldn't have been race issues if the Government had not started them.

  • @SixFootTallMidget Maybe because it was a slightly interesting hypothetical question? haha

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  • Maddow is clearly looking for high ratings instead of fully understanding Ron Paul's position. It should be common sense for businesses not to discriminate, if they do they clearly will not profit and will go out of business, which is why no such businesses would exist. Ron Paul believes that it is unnecessary regulation on the market and he is right. It has nothing to do with him being racist....I can't believe people are so easily swayed by this misinformed Rachel Maddow.

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  • Ya, they'd be out of business in a matter of days.

    But I guess if you don't want him as president, then you're obviously fine with murdering innocent civilians American and foreign, and expanding wars. Are you going to explain to people who's families have been killed why you want Obama back in office? Why are you going to continue to nit-pick Ron Paul's ideas and let the empire continue?

    If your truly anti war and anti violence you wouldn't even think of voting for Obama again.

  • I can deal with Rachel Maddow.

    I think she actually at least tries to be fair.

    That being said, why do racial matters get such special treatment.

    If some guy decides who he lets on his property and who he doesn't, noone questions it at all.

    But when you bring in race, it's an issue.

  • why was the most important part of what Ron Paul was trying to explain.. CUT OFF!? You got your partial sound bite and you twist what he was trying to get at. Lousy journalism... RON PAUL 2012!

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  • Ron Paul has my vote for 2012....Ron Paul is so awesome

  • It funny b/c every time you talk to a liberal about the drug war they say you can't legislate morality. Yet on this subject that's what they wanna do. strange.

  • @JerryTheHeretic OUTSTANDING observation !

    Bravo

    They also like to spout off about how intelligent and "forward thinking' they are....

    I say go ahead and let someone run their restaurant openly racist, we'll all sit back and watch the rotting food pile up outside the dumpster....So much negative attention will be brought to that place no one with any sense would eat there, the free market will take care of that <--- That is forward thinking

  • Ron Paul is not saying it is right for businesses to do that he simply thinks that its wrong for government to interfere with an owners right. he is saying that they did not honor the constitution by doing it the way they did not that he doesn't like setting next to a black man when he goes to get a biscuit and coffee

  • I can see ron paul's point here, not that I agree with it. the problem is, there is a history of racism, slavery, and segregation, and after all has been said and done, you can't leave ppl to work it out on their own after the fact. maybe the overly intelligent ones, but most ppl are far too emotionally charged and scarred by the issue. as if they shouldn't be!

  • All jokes aside though this Maddow dude is an asshole

  • Simple demagogery.

  • Wow, this woman is TOTALLY IMPARTIAL!! Yeah Right! LOL!! Go Ron, Paul!!

  • businesses reserve the right to refuse service to any potential customer. do you really think that this isnt being abused everything is fair and theres no discrimination? no, businesses everywhere still treat customers they dont like as complete shit, whatever the prejudice may be. id rather see a sign in front of a business that would reject a certain demographic rather than lie through their teeth about it, at least people would get fair treatment where they do decide to take their business.

  • Liberal minds are too narrow to appreciate the libertarian viewpoint. For instance, they can't see the hypocracy of affirmative action under the guise of equality. For them, the end justifies the means. For a libertarian, the means justifies the end.

  • @HafwayHolmes Or libertarian minds are too narrow to appreciate the liberal viewpoint. Case in point: affirmative action. It was neither reverse-discrimination nor hypocritical because the whole purpose of it was to structurally counteract the informal privilege granted to members of the dominant society. Special laws were required that forced employers to fairly consider qualified employees of a given race of gender because these employers were unfairly not considering them before.

  • @HafwayHolmes well said :)

  • Libertarian views of freedom are too scary for most wussy Americans. Let the racists hang "Whites Only" signs on their business windows and watch their revenues drop straight into the sewer. Liberal do-gooders should youtube search what some black Americans have to say about Ron Paul on this issue. Learn what freedom really means. If you look around and don't see something that offends you, you are not living in a free society.

  • @CribNotes Ooooooo, I like that: "If you look around and don't see something that offends you, you are not living in a free society". That's quotable.

  • When it comes to Civil Rights, the government helped reshape the thinking of the American people like a set of braces does with teeth. Now that we have conformed to a certain way of thinking, we don't need the "government braces" anymore. Teeth don't suddenly get crooked again because you remove the braces, and America won't suddenly become racist again because the government gets out of our business.

  • If I could clone myself, and my clone were a legal American citizen... could I legally vote for Ron Paul twice through my clone?

  • @CribNotes What about Black people who live in highly racist areas and are too poor to move away? What if that's the only store in some small town?

  • @CribNotes Freedom is scary. We have to be responsible and stuff.

  • The notion that government can tell you what you can or cannot do with your property is reverse slavery. It means that you have to provide services to whomever the government says. "Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property and are forced to work." -Wikipedia.

  • Hey Rachel, Ron Paul supports the Constitutional Right to say what you want, like your right to say anything no matter how stupid, reverse-discimrinatory, or irrational your comments.

    Nice try, go look in the mirror and say "Hi there, hypocrite!"

  • Like him, I wouldn't patronize a business that discriminates against people for such reasons. I also don't think a representative government should be allowed to limit access to government services based on these same reasons. However, private business owners should be able to serve whomever he or she chooses to serve. This is true for both black and white business owners. Civilized behavior will evolve from a libertarian model. Mandated behavior causes entrenchment of resentment. 

  • Rachel Maddow... what if the sign says "No Whites". Is that ok? There is racial discrimination nowadays. It's called "Affirmative Action".

    But what do you expect from a she-man jew.

  • @Kill0Your0TV Did you know affrimative action greatly benefits WOMEN more than the color of skin? You Ron Paul sheeple are so delusional.

  • @Marakulous43 Oh so it discriminates based on gender as opposed to race. That's much better!

  • What a lying lesbo jew. How typical. He said no such thing.

  • "zomg! everyone, you are so dumb and stuff. The government has a moral obligation to make you do the right things. If you don't like to do the right things, you can go to jail or move to Somalia. You still have a choice! It's not like I'm taking away your freedoms or anything!" -Some Statist d-bag.

  • This Mr. Maddow is from fucking Canada!! WTF does HE know about it??

  • Its Ron Pauls fundamental message.

    When you allow govt to make unconstitutional laws, they then have to make more laws to combat the previous laws leading to govt being involved in every aspect of peoples lives.

    Fundamentally I think he is right. If a restaurant put up that kind of sign, who would eat there. It would be the end of that place as a business. In this day and age people are more sophisticated. It is peoples right to hold a fringe view, whether you agree with it or not.

  • Oh the irony of this video!! Encouraging people to be slaves by way of political correctness. Ron Paul believes in the Constitution. The govt should not be allowed to tell anyone what we can/cannot do with their private property. This is NOT a Dictatorhip!! There are enough rich blacks in the US to make up one of, if not the largest and most powerful countries in the world. People of every color need to stand up against the elite and take our power back!!!!

  • @carzthtgobm But the government does tell businesses what to do all the time. It requires businesses to get a licence, it requires them to meet certain health and safety requirements, it requires them to take on certain legal liabilities, it requires them to pay taxes and bills... there is nothing legally or morally prohibitive against governments also saying that businesses are not allowed to discriminate on the basis of colour, gender, orientation, or whatever.

  • @CoryTheRaven It's morally wrong for me to force my views upon you. When a government creates a law, it has to enforce it. This nonsense about this "it's okay for me to force you to do something if I think I'm right" business is exactly what lead to government supported segregation in the first place.

    Do you also believe it's okay for government to force you to eat what it thinks is healthy? Do you also believe the government has a moral obligation to tell you what church to go to?

  • @tripzero0 I'm not a place of business. I do not need a licence to be me. If I were a place of business and needed to get a licence from the government, then the government does have the right to tell me what to do to maintain that licence.

  • @CoryTheRaven, Your logic breaks down. How is that any different than a church? Should the government have the right to tell churches what they can or cannot teach within their walls? A business is just a person or persons doing something for others. The government doesn't own that because they don't own you. The notion that licensing with the state is some sort of transfer of ownership of private property from me to the state is horrific.

  • @tripzero0 Governments already do exercise authority over what churches can and cannot preach. In order to retain tax exempt status, churches must refrain from politically partisan advocacy. They are also subject to the law on things like hate speech and civil rights.

    You are also mistaken about the nature of business. An incorporated business is not "a person or persons doing something for others." An incoprorated business is a legal entity created by the government...

  • @tripzero0 ...Yes, the business owner filled the paperwork and everything, but the sole authority for that business' existence is the government. If it is not licenced by the gvoernment, it does not exist. To conduct business without the authorization of the government is illegal.

    Therefore the government is well within its rights to lay out certain rules to which a business must adhere to maintain its legal existence. It has nothing to do with who owns what.

  • @CoryTheRaven Well it has a lot to do with it actually because going from your interpretation the government actually owns everything.

  • @dubified89 Then, according to your logic, the government also owns your car because you need a driver's licence and insurance.

  • @tripzero0 By the way, you shouldn't throw around the term "horrific" in such a petty way. "Horrific" is the violent genocide of a race or the rape of children or something else actually horrific. Your disapproval for one or another idea of property and ownership is politics.

  • caugh,caugh, Bull Dike, caugh,caugh!

  • yikes, Ron Paul goes down a notch in my books :(

  • LOOK do not blame Ron Paul for stupid signs BLAME THE PEOPLE WHO POST THEM!!!!

    Ron Paul 2012

  • It OUGHT to be legal, yes...why is this an issue? It's a stupid policy, and a pretty disastrous business strategy, but there should be no laws against it.

  • So I could put up a sign saying no (whatever I want) allowed? cool!

  • Even though the commenters are mostly against Maddow, Americans mostly agree with her on this SETTLED issue.

  • @Edgehead10075 the problem is she is assuming the federal government "fixed" the problem when by all accounts it is the reason the problem happened. Why does the constitution not address the slavery issue yet grants us all these rights? Why was the Federal government willing to abandon reconstruction and allow the south to segregate further? The Federal government fucked up, it didn't and hasn't helped minorities in a long time. CRA is a nice gesture, but its a band aid for bad policy.

  • @Edgehead10075 americans are mostly dumb...u r included.

  • Maddow is a clown.

    Use your brain, you slime.

  • this bitch is ugly but look at her "life mate" Susan Mikula. that bitch is UAF! UGHHHHH fuck you rachel maddow, penis-envy having bitch! liberals are destroying america

  • @hiphopnpolitics she's reporting the issues that affect us everyday. your calling her an "ugly bitch" behind a keyboard. hmmmmm

  • Ron Paul also wants black biz to put up no whites signs. Its your right to choose.

  • @cbrown3001 He wants neither but yea if you own a home or business it is up to you who enters it.

  • @jneil2007 I ment he wants people to have the right to choose ,not that he wants people to do it.sorry my bad

  • That's a distinction without a difference.

  • @cbrown3001 An obvious counterpoint that no one made. And from what I hear, back in the day before the Civil Rights Act there WERE more black owned businesses in black communities than we have now.

  • Miss Maddow. I used to be a fan of yours. This piece on Ron and Rand are Corp. hit actions. Shame on you. You miss the point made by Doc. Paul in everything he says and does. The govt. does not belong in the private affairs on citizens. Stop trying to make people believe that the Paul's are racists. That bushwhack interviewing.

  • This woman is a dumb cunt. Segregation was created by government laws and weak property rights. This bitch needs to get a clue.

  • So there would be no segregation if we got rid of the Civil Rights Act? History shows that that's not true. After the CRA was passed, the Heart of Atlanta Motel sued for the right to discriminate. The Heart of Atlanta Motel is not a government; it's a privately owned business. BTW, Maddow is a Rhodes Scholar. She's far from dumb.

  • @Edgehead10075 No but the federal government had no problem standing back and allowing the south to segregate, even though it was obvious what was going on, even though it was obvious constitutional rights were being infringed upon. I have no problem with CRA, but only because it was the only way to try and fix the bullshit and spinelessness of the Federal government to protect American citizens from disenfranchisement. Did the federal government step in and stop the KKK from killing Americans?

  • @Edgehead10075 I also want to add the problem with our perception of the civil war and the period of time that came after is that we always assume it's just the "South being bad" when it is the whole of America. Social darwinism was the single most detrimental thing to our society yet American's BELIEVED it, as did other nations during the early 20th century. The CRA was only needed because people believed a bullshit philosophy and twisted the constitution to fit that belief.