re: #412 WindUpBird

The thing is dude, it’s civil rights legislation. However it is done, it is going to be ugly, because it’s using limited levers of power to push back against culturally indoctrinated racism, deeply held to the core by Americans. And that means stuff like affirmative action.

So going “it was handled poorly”, I just can’t accept that. In America, that it was handled at ALL in a strident way in that era is frankly amazing, given what it took and the history of America.

A concise history of black-white relations in the USA (h/t SpaceJesus)