Let's see what the civil right act of 1964 got us. Well it turned all our larger cities black,
Population of New York is 43% white and 25% black. Population of LA is 49% White and 10% Black. Chicago is 38% white and 35% black. I don't see any of the top cities where whites are not the majority.
where you are less safe walking the streets than you would be in Bagdad!
The highest murder rate in the entire country is Chicago at 19 per 100,000. LA is 10 per 100k and NY is 6 per 100k. Baghdad's statistics aren't as good due to less record keeping, but they range from between 34 and 40 per 100k.
In general though I think you'll see that crime has a lot more to do with economic status than race - ie, poor people tend to commit more crime (or at least the petty/violent crime), and for a myriad of conditions blacks are often in the poorer bracket.
It put about 12 % of the population on the welfare rolls.
It's actually a little under 10%, which has nothing to do with the civil rights act - the foundations for this were being laid way back during the "New Deal" program under Roosevelt. And there are plenty of whites on welfare too. Almost as much as black families (39% vs 40%, respectively), but again, black families tend to poorer - hell we just started treating them like real people 40 years ago and it's any wonder? That's not to say I think they deserve special treatment - most of our wrongs have been righted - thanks in no small part to the Civil Rights Act.
It brought about dummying down the schools, because any test the blacks could not pass was raciest! It led directly to people coming to rely on the government for every thing.
Bull. GWB's insane "No Child Left Behind" crap is largely to blame for this. Our public schools are a laughing stock of the world and it has nothing to do with race or the Civil Rights Act. It has everything to do with policy. Some of the brightest kids at my school were black. Hell out of our top 10 graduates in our class (of which I was second) 3 were black - all were incredibly intelligent. Meanwhile most of the ignorant racists were way back in the pack contributing to the same "no child left behind" policies that you claim to hate so much.
In short it was the beginning of the end of the country!
Yeah. Not being able to treat people like a second-class citizen, or worse - subhuman, because of the color of their skin really is the downfall of the nation. </Sarcasm off> You know what I really do find it tiring when blacks complain about things being racist - because largely that portion of our history is over. I never did anything wrong to any person based on racial stereotypes and can't stand when that card is pulled, but every now and then somebody has to prove that yes, racism certainly is alive and well.
Of course the claim of "I dun caer abut bing PC!" claims will inevitably come. Somehow claiming the absence of political correctness has become some euphemistic badge of honor to wave around as an excuse for being a complete and utter jackass.
