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Absolutely, that quote....it points out point blank what the difference between Group Think and Individual Think, MLK's opinions are his, his opinion of Goldwater is very unlike what Perham quoted from the NYT in 2012 and even MLK, who disagreed with Goldwater said he was not a racist.

MLK understood Goldwaters position and it was not one he supported, which is fine, you can have conversations like that...and walk away with respect for one another.

As far as me supporting The Civil Rights Acts of the 1960's there is very little legislation that I would have supported or actions of LBJ during that period. History has proved me right.

My opinion would have been much different then vs. today. I believe at the time something like that was needed or even necessary. Today, 60 years later it is time to evolve and quit blaming other people for your problems, situations and lot in life.

60 years ago, I could agree that the start of life didn't give some folks a fair and equal chance. 50-60 years later or anybody born after 1970, give me a break. There is nobody born after 1970 that was not given the same chance in life that I received.

If you still think I am a racist, fine by me, your opinion matters little if any to me, but to blatanly call someone a racist that you know nothing about is absurd.

Now if you want to call Buckly a racist you would have a much stronger case.....but that is a story for another time.......
 
There is nothing preventing those kids from getting an education and getting out of the said area if they so choose. I am sure they have family outside of that area, if not they could easily go their pastor and discuss the situation.

In the hallways of my HS in Houston there was a shooting, stabbing, and I was attacked with no warning and for no reason other than saying hello in the hallway to a girl I sat next to in Chemistry. Fractured half my face and spent 10 days in the hospital.

I continued to go to school graduate HS, go to the Texas, pay for my own education and get a job.

So yes, I would say that my life growing up in questionable areas of Chicago, Mesa Arizona, New Orleans and Houston Texas was not much different then their life.

Would an organization like a church or Big Brothers and Big Sisters help, hell yes. The kids need to know they have alternatives and it is not up to society to point it out to them, they have to know to go find it. Their church might be a good alternative. By the way, why don't you just pick the most extreme of all circumstances possible? The people that live in that area elect criminals to office and the same members of the House of Representatives year after year, why don't they start there and elect somebody that would actually get something done? The crime rate is a direct reflection on the elected officials, don't tell me they can't do anything about it.....
Kids that want out can get out and or do something about it.

As far as the question about the Civil Rights Laws, after studying LBJ, which is hindsight, I would not have supported anything or very little that he stood for, I should have used the word hindsight. The New Deal, The Great Society, and Hope and Change were three extreme liberal movements that are proving to be the biggest hijacks of the American people in the history of the United States, sorry story for another time....

I will also say, that if I could go back in time and put my self at my age today or younger, I could see the benfits and need for some of the Civil Rights Legislation.

I don't believe that kids were given an equal opportunity, education wise until you start getting to the kids born around 1970, give or take 5 years or so for some other areas but in today's world there is no excuse or very few excuseable ones. I will give you kids that born with issues, or that have accidents or victims of extreme behavior but for kids within two Standard Deviations, there is not excuse, it is about you and what you want out of life. If your family and or surroundings don't motivate you, something needs too and that something is yourself.
 
MLK is a tough subject. The main point I am making is that he saw Barry Goldwater for what he was.....I think he, as you pointed out, understood Barry Goldwater better than alot of his folllowers. The key point that I mentioned way aboved is that Barry Goldwater was not a racist and his vote against the Legislation in question was a question for him about individual liberty.

When others on here pull up a quote from a 2012 NYT article throwing Goldwater in with known and admitted Racists it is just wrong, and that is why I have such disdain for LBJ and moronic posts.

As far as the 1970 comment, it was not meant as a point in time where everything was magic, it was people born in or around that time frame, by the time they started going to school and understanding the ways of the world, the opportunties given were relatively equal. Am I saying everything was all peaches and creme,no, but if you were born in or around 1970, opportunites are relatively equal.

I just believe that an individual makes his own way in the world and there are very few acceptable excuses. When I hear excuses about the school I went didn't have computers or the teachers weren't this and that, I call ********, I had plenty of classes especially in HS that I could have taught the class. Why? Because I took the extra step, the teacher said do the even problems, well I did the odd problems too. Read Chapter 1 and 2 tonight and we will do Chapter 3 and 4 on Thursday, I read all 4 chapters that night. I would get my history books, civics books at the beginning of the year and have them read by the end of the first couple weeks of school. There is no magic but in life as in school you have to deal with inept Managers/Teachers with little or no budget, deal with it. I don't want to hear your excuses, the team that works for me knows there are no excuses and they accept full responsibilty for the outcome of their sales territories.
 
LOL! Is Obama trying to win over that 5% of AA voters that didn't vote for him. Don't worry Barack, black voters will vote for any Democrat regardless of race or something else that actually matters.
 
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