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Entry: Civil Rights and Wrongs Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/civil_rights_and_wrongs#14818 Post contents: Adriana, I see you've returned (as I predicted and welcome back) and on the same note you left - singing the praises of distant tyranny. How wonderfully well-off the people of Iraq must be today - liberated by the distant boy emperor Bush from their local tyranny. As for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the least of its provisions were those which ended mandatory segregation in a handful of southern states. It also forbade any type of private discrimination in any commercial action or employment or housing. Within only a few years, it was interpreted (with MLK's and LBJ's enthusiastic promotion) as requiring affirmative action (i.e. discrimination) in favor of supposedly victim minorities. This ill result is still with us, but so is a much worse one - the inclusion of sexual discrimination in the bill thanks to an amendment by the Mississippi segregationist Judge Smith. This, of course, led to discrimination in favor of white and black women against white and black men with particularly devastating effects on the latter and on black families. The damage to white families has increased, though not as fast, and the act has been used as a tool by the feminists in their war against the male sex and to help destroy the institution of marriage. There of course, have been other factors, including the legalization and widespread use of contraception and abortion and the almost universal adoption of "no-fault" (actually unilateral) divorce by the states. But the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has also played an important role in these long term social ills. This is the MLK legacy. It is also the legacy of Judge Smith. Whether he was making a vain attempt to kill the bill or just making mischief in general, he got his revenge on the blacks - especially on black men. Sent at: 2008 11 21