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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Myles Horton
	Date:	1/18/2010 7:28:44 PM

I didn't mention it to slam JFK but the fact is his administration, including Bobby Kennedy, did not support or at least were not interested in civil rights for their moral reasons.

See the post below to GF for a great explanation of why blacks were overwhelmingly Republican and for good reason. Recall that Lincoln was a Republican, Republicans overwhelmingly supported the civil rights movement, etc. Their slavish (and I mean slavish) relationship with the Dem party has been nothing but negative for the black community with the exception of some blacks who financially benefit at the expense of their broader community (the people I call poverty pimps).

As to affirmative action, I think its an insult to blacks and more importantly every single hard working successful black person carries the stain of people thinking they only got where they are because of affirmative action and not due to their own efforts. To me that is the saddest legacy of affirmative action and reason alone to end it.