Bad Boys II

[Dill]

(06-23-2020, 02:06 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Dill: "White people" passed the Civil Rights Act and Voters Rights Act in response to the tension created by civil rights "mobs." You agree with that, right?

No.  I don't think white people supported the Civil rights Act because they were intimidated by violent mobs tearing shit apart.  Instead I think the white people in the north reacted to the atrocities finally showing up on the televisions (dogs and fire hoses on peaceful protestors) and in magazines (the horrific image of Emmitt Till).

Most of the extreme "race riots" across the country actually occured AFTER the passage of the Civil Rights Act 

Some of the most extreme certainly occurred after King's death. And I don't agree that at present, it's ok for people to tear down a statue at a prompt from Shaun King.

But your answer has shifted from my question, as I did not ask if the response was to "violent mobs tearing shit apart." 

I put "mobs" in quotation marks because that is how '60s civil rights protesters were viewed by their critics, who argued that such protestors violated rule of law.  E.g., King's actions in Birmingham in 1963 were addressed by a group of local clergymen as actions calculated to "incite hatred and violence," even as the clergymen complemented the police on their restraint.
https://www.morningsidecenter.org/sites/default/files/files/Excerpts%20Clergymen%20%26%20King%20letters.pdf

The "atrocities" you say showed up on television did so because black people were practicing peaceful protest as civil disobedience, much along the lines of BLM.

Owing to their actions, we are now daily viewing police "atrocities" video. We oughtn't let those out of sight when discussing their effects.