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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Myles Horton
	Date:	1/18/2010 3:16:27 PM

Hound, I am not sure its totally accurate to say that nothing would have happened had affirmative action not been implemented. There is no doubt that passage of the Civil Rights Act didn't result in a magic wand being waved and I think that people began to oppose affirmative action when LBJ specifically changed the concept from equal rights to equal outcome, which at its core required discrimination in the opposite direction. If you look at the improvement in the standard of living of blacks say from the turn of the century to 1960 and 1960 and beyond you will see that most of the advances predated the CRA. I believe that much of the slowdown was due to the entitlement mentality that took hold after LBJ's Great Society programs and have read some interesting economics arguments that support that belief. Thomas Sowell has written extensively on this issue as has Walter Williams.

Couple of interesting facts that get very little notice.

MLK was a Republican as were most blacks prior to the Great Society of LBJ.

JFK voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 as did almost all Democrats.