Ocasio-Cortez blasts Reagan, FDR over ‘racist’ policies

Good, interesting, informative post. Thanks. You make some very good points. The two laws you mentioned toward the end of your post appear to be strongly pro-business. At the time of their passage, most politicians were strongly pro-business & looking for ways to promote business interests & profits legally. I'm a liberal, but I agree with your suggestions that those laws be repealed.

 

I concur, she kept Amazon out of her neighborhood along with 20,000 new jobs.

 

You write like you're a frying pan. It's a match.

I suppose I can now look forward to a notification from the mods telling me I can't call people frying pans.

 

FDR didn't do squat for black American citizens.

 

While the landmark act received a majority of support from both parties, a greater percentage of Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, Republicans were generally more unified than Democrats in support of civil rights legislation, as many Southern Democrats voted in opposition.

During this period, the South was a Democratic stronghold that consistently resisted the civil rights movement.

The most commonly cited of the Civil Rights Acts is the one passed in 1964. Shapiro told The Daily Caller News Foundation that he was referring to the 1964 act.

The House passed the bill after 70 days of public hearings and testimony in a 290-130 vote. The bill received 152 “yea” votes from Democrats, or 60 percent of their party, and 138 votes from Republicans, or 78 percent of their party.

https://www.countable.us/articles/1...ted-civil-rights-act-percentage-democrats-did

 

Who wasn't in that era?

 

FDR made executive order# 8802 which created the Fair Employment Practice Committee. It was the most important federal move in support of the rights of African-Americans between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

 

If you had any historical knowledge, you would know that the vote was along REGIONAL Lines, and had little to do with Party.

At the time, there were only 11 GOP House members (in the former States of the Confederacy).

All 11 (100% of them) Voter NO on the Bill.

There was 1 GOP Senator (from those States).

He Voted NO.

None of the southern Republicans voted for the bill

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights

I would suggest that you pursue a better understanding of the Political History of that Era.

Just a friendly suggestion.

 

Also the same year that the first Republican presidential candidate won the south.

 

In the Senate, the bill faced strong and organized opposition from Southern Democrats. Influential senators like Richard Russell, Strom Thurmond (who would soon switch to the Republican Party), Robert Byrd, William Fulbright, and Sam Ervin joined together to launch a filibuster that lasted for 57 days.
After some changes were made to the bill and the filibuster ended, it passed the Senate with a 73-27 vote. About 82 percent of Republicans in the Senate voted for the bill, as did 69 percent of Democrats. The amended Senate bill was then sent back to the House where it passed with 76 percent support from Republicans and 60 percent support from Democrats.

Prior to this, Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first major civil rights legislation to be enacted in decades, which sought to protect the voting rights of black Americans. The bill passed the House in a 286-126 vote. Only 51 percent of Democrats voted in favor of the bill, or 119 of their 235 members, compared to 84 percent of Republicans, or 167 of their 199 members.
The bill passed in a 72-18 vote. The bill received 43 of 46 Republican votes, or 93 percent, and 29 of 49 Democratic votes, or 59 percent.

The Senate version was sent back to the House, where it was approved after amendment in a 279-97 vote (75 percent of Republicans voting in favor and 55 percent of Democrats). The Senate agreed to the amendment, with support from 80 percent of Republicans and 46 percent of Democrats. Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law on Sept. 9, 1957.

 

How many Southern Republicans voted for it?

 

The link doesn't break it down.

 

I'll tell you, 0.

 

have a link?

 

Didn't think so.

 

Exactly.

That was the Transformative Election in which those who embraced White Supremacy felt more at home under the Big Tent of the GOP.

After 1964, the GOP was clearly the major party embraced by White Supremacists.

That is a Universally Accepted and Undeniable FACT.

^No argument is even possible against that assertion.

 

IOW:

1. A super majority of Democrats in Congress predictably voted NOT to end the Jim Crow era.
2. A larger super majority of Republicans in Congress, also predictably, voted to end DP enacted Jim Crow segregation.

What does that tell you about the DP?

 

11?

 

So the WPA and CCC jobs that were given to blacks were of no benefit to them? Having one of these jobs was a huge benefit for anyone in the depression. Around 500,000 blacks had these jobs.

 

If your FACT is so clear why did Wallace/Lemay run for President in 1968? At the time (per you) the GOP was carrying the ball so to speak.

 

0 would be the correct answer.

 

FDR was scum =

"The FEPC was solely an investigative and advisory committee and lacked enforcement powers. It did, however, symbolize at least some commitment to nondiscrimination and set a precedent for the postwar civil rights achievements that occurred during the administration of Pres. Harry S. Truman."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Executive-Order-8802

 

4,839 people worked on building Boulder Dam. There were only 15 black men hired.

Again, News About Boulder Dam - June, 1934
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vieilles_annonces/5045382790/

 

Compared to zero under Hoover’s relief during the depression.

 

I misread your question. I thought you asked how many voted against it.
I assumed it would be 11.