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Arazi

(8,887 posts)
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 05:52 PM Jan 2016

If you read Defense Lawyers post that's exactly what he said

and got flamed by Empowerer as ignorant.

The Civil Rights Act was enacted very quickly and was a bold piece of legislation, the Civil Rights Movement had many layers and steps.

Making that point got me flamed too. Empowerer doesn't seem to want to dialogue.

I've said it before and I'll say it here again, I actually think the several decades long civil rights work was revolutionary. I take the long view and don't see it as incremental at all - it was lightening fast in changing our society comparatively speaking.

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