The Civil Rights Movement - Rate It

[Greed]

Re: 2012 Election - Postmortem

your [all or nothing] approach does make for an interesting question: where would black people be in america today, had we rejected progress, -- instead of all or nothing -- when all or nothing doesn't appear to have been viable alternatives.

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i'll state an objection to your assertion that an adoption of my logic is "rejecting progress", but i don't know what the black community would look like today. its hard for me to think in a mentality 50 years ago to appreciate the consequences of doing things differently, but its an interesting question.

i say that in the context of being a person unsatisfied with the civil rights movement in hindsight, and unsatisfied with the state of the black community now.

 

[tp2001]

Re: 2012 Election - Postmortem

I'll state an objection to your assertion that an adoption of my logic is "rejecting progress", but I don't know what the black community would look like today. Its hard for me to think in a mentality 50 years ago to appreciate the consequences of doing things differently, but its an interesting question.

I say that in the context of being a person unsatisfied with the Civil Rights movement in hindsight, and unsatisfied with the state of the black community now.

Interesting viewpoint on the issue of voting and the status of the Civil Rights movement...I'm pretty much on the same boat

The thing about the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement is that it could be said that to a point the black community accepted what was given at the time...therefore its results bring the current state of affairs. How does that fit within your beliefs?

 

[tp2001]

Well since this has been modded to be its own thread, I'll jump on this subject...

I have some mixed emotions about this...while it was looking good at first, looking back at what has happened over the past 50 years it seems like we have less now than we did in the past...

Sure, it may seem like we're good, but with a lot of African-Americans poor, in prison, and barely making it with the addition of limited opportunities to become wealthy in this country (which has been the case for decades), maybe the effects or results of the movement have slowly deteriorated...