And these are the same people who are ready to say "well, let's not rush to judgment" anytime a Republican is caught doing something wrong. Some Conservatives care nothing about justice when it comes to persons of color or people they don't like.
As much as I hate that there are people in my party like this they aren't even close to being a majority. Without us evil Republicans the Civil Rights Acts never would have been passed.
That was decades ago. If the Civil Rights Acts had been set to expire in 2019 and were up for renewal today, it's unlikely they would pass through the Senate and get signed into law, at least without some major watering down.
Are you seriously suggesting that there would be less support for civil rights 55 years later? Both parties are way less racist than they were in 1964.
McConnell probably wouldn't even bring it up for a vote. Liberals in the media would cry and Republican politicians would bask in their tears to look cool to the base. Fox News and talk radio would drone on and on about how racism is dead and they aren't necessary anymore and how blacks just want to be better than whites.
So, yes, I strongly and vehemently stand by my statement that if it the various civil rights acts from the 1960s had to be renewed during the Trump Presidency, they wouldn't be. I do think they would be renewed in some kind of hypothetical national popular vote, but not by the current Congress/president, not without some edits.
But the CRA was just saying that you have to treat people the same way. It wasn't affirmative action or slavery reparations.
You're forgetting the current refrain about how racism doesn't exist anymore that Republicans spout. It would not pass the Senate in the current form because it would be "identity politics" and "handouts to minorities" which are considered bad by the party.
