The only problem with the Civil Rights Act was that it FORCED the integration of the races.
First, segregation is not necessarily a bad thing. People naturally tend to segregate themselves to their own kind. That’s just the nature of things. Now, I agree, government enforced segregation is evil. However, the official segregation of the races was diminishing at its natural pace prior to 1964. As time went on, society experienced more and more interaction between the races. Minorities were making inroads into American society at a natural pace. The Civil Rights Act, by forcing integration, fomented resentment and hostility and exacerbated tensions between the races. Today, racial preferences are still fomenting resentment and hostility between the races.
When the Civil Rights Act was being proposed, those that opposed the Act were labeled racists. Even today, those that opposed the Act are still labeled racist.
One of the reasons that the Civil Rights Act was opposed was that the opponents saw the Act as instilling a system of quotas to be enforced. Those who promoted the Civil Rights Act denied that there would be any quotas, in fact, Senator Hubert Humphrey addressed the House of Representatives and gave his personal “guarantee” that there would never be a system of quotas with regards to the Civil Rights Act.
Well, lo and behold, today we have quotas. Of course they are not called quotas, they are called “goals”.
Were the Civil Rights Act and “related legislation” beneficial? Well, the only way a judgement can be made is to make some before and after comparisons. Let’s see…
Crime rate UP
Prison population UP
Illegitimacy rate UP
Related Government expenditures UP
Education DOWN
Now, I realize that all of those are not directly related to the Civil Rights Act, but all have a kinship with liberalism.
Speaking of education, and this lends a good before and after example.
Prior to the Supreme Court case of Brown vs. the Board of Education, virtually every high-school graduate, black or white, rich or poor, from the valedictorian to the one at the bottom of the class could read.
Today, it is commomplace to hear of high-school graduates that can’t read or are functionally illiterate. Which is better, the before or the after?
No, freedom means that the populace should not be subjected to a government that enacts programs such as “Citizenship USA”, for the sole purpose of changing the political demographics of regions of America in order to gain legislative seats sympathetic to a particular political party.
It’s humorous how the left always likes to label conservatives as “fascist”, when fascism is a tenet of liberalism.
Looking for fascism? Look no further than “minimum wage laws”. A tenet of fascism and a pet of liberalism.