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When Those Who Struggle for Civil Rights Quit
The Whites Struggling for Supremacy Never Did and Now They Are Supreme
When you throw a dart at the timeline of American history, no matter when it hits you will always find a struggle for rights. But in the South, you will find a time when the battle for Civil Democracy Rights stops. And that national awareness and cessation ground to a halt in the 1970s, we find that those fighting against Black Americans expressing their civil rights. Against integration, the white conservatives fought on ruthlessly. They kept winning, and today, they have a victory that is so complete that it looks to be unstoppable. The white Congressional leader, Mike Johnson, is a gloating white conservative Louisianan from a region of the highest order of racial white repression of blacks. He had no intention of stopping Trump and had helped to engineer the Stop the Steal campaign.
Take the battle for desegregation. After the historic ruling of Brown v. Board of Education, many Americans believed that fairy dust was sprinkled on America, and all society was now integrated. Northerners had an easier time believing it, as laws made segregation illegal in states.
While there was “suburban” desecration that started nationally from the 1938 Mortgage Segregation Act, as I call it (see link below), and although that was powerful in segregating home…