Thoughs on Civil Rights Legislation, and the need for a steppast legistlation..
March 31, 2001
Albany's Race Problem: People like to blame guns, because it's easier then being realistic about race.
An Alternative Look at Slavery: Andrew says black slavery at the begining of our nation, isn't the great evil we sometimes portray it to be.
Analysis of the Southern Ideology on Slavery: A short paper discussing slavery and it's rationalization.
Another Essay on Tolerance: Exploring the meaning of true tolerance and what it means to accept deviance.
Average American: How stereotyping and prejudice hurts us all.
Blacks in Pickup Trucks: The trouble I have with seeing blacks driving trucks.
Considering the Silent Majority: A Label Playing Off Class Conflict for Political Gain: A short paper written for Introduction to Sociology on the silent majority, and use of this label for political gain.
Growth of White Power Music: Thoughts on growth of racist music, social alienation, and youth rebellion.
Is Feminism Dead?: The fate of feminism is tied to the Democratic Party.
Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King: Hillary’s remarks on President Johnson ring clear on this holiday.
Martin Luther King Day: Race as we remember MLK.
On Black Culture: And It's Advancement: A short essay recrying racism and our lack of solutions it.
Politizing Cultural Diversity: Andrew complains about the liberal-bias in the Cultural Diversity class he is taking.
Racism or Urbanism: Do we dislike blacks or just the culture they too often represent?
Racist Symbolism: How I still associate blacks with certain bad things.
Trent Lott and the Black Lobby: Andrew disagree's with some black's lynching of Trent Lott...
When Fairness Becomes Racist.: Discussing the need to treat all the same.
Many people claim the 1964 civil rights act was a major step forward in ending discrimation against blacks. I my opinion, and in Goldwater's opinion, it did very little, and forced regulations on people that were not successful.
The fact is, morality can't be legislated. If people don't care about the law, it won't be enforced. The Civil Rights Act suffers from that problem still today—as many still descrimate based on unimportant characteristics such as race.
99% of all the progress when it comes to rights of blacks has been do to social change—racism isn't an acceptable pratice—people avoid racists, and look down on them. The social pressure, along with the laws to back up against real crimes, has made racism much less of a problem then it was yesterday.
Today, it's many other issues. It's freedom in schools. It's gun rights. It's free speech. People believe that the only way to avoid conflicts of mass destruction, is to regulate speech and ideas (sort of like the civil rights act of '64).
We can't force society to change. It will happen at it's own pace. Protests, news coverage, and open thinking can help progress. When it comes down to it, until the public has changed their mind on what's rigth or wrong, it's not going to change.
The scary fact is, all of the social enigneering can't fix the world ills. Niether can the senate. Society as a whole must deal with it, at a personal level in each person.
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