re: #52 HappyWarrior

What we’re learning though is around the world there are a lot of people who never really wanted Civil Rights. They prove why the federal government needed to get involved in the first place. I have no doubt if the government had just let the “South alone” during hte Civil Rights years, we’d still have Jim Crow today.

Maybe, maybe not. Brown v Board was decided in 1954. The lower court proceedings in Loving v Virginia started in 1958 (shortly after the Lovings were married in DC). It would have been a much slower process, but I think it is entirely possible that the courts would have dismantled Jim Crow.

(I’m not saying that it would have been a better outcome, but I do believe, as King said, that the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice)