Howard Smith of Virginia, chairman of the House Rules Committee, introduced the Southern Manifesto in a speech on the House Floor. Formally titled the “Declaration of Constitutional Principles,” it was signed by 82 Representatives and 19 Senators—roughly one-fifth of the membership of Congress and all from states that had once composed the Confederacy. It marked a moment of southern defiance against the Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka (KS) decision, which determined that separate school facilities for black and white school children were inherently unequal. The Manifesto attacked Brown as an abuse of judicial power that trespassed upon states’ rights. It urged southerners to exhaust all “lawful means” to resist the “chaos and confusion” that would result from school desegregation. Smith had cooperated with several Senators to develop the Manifesto, and Walter F. George of Georgia introduced it in the other chamber. Under Smith, the Rules Committee became a graveyard for numerous civil rights initiatives in the 1950s. In his prefatory remarks, Smith declared that the ship of state had “drifted from her moorings,” and described the high court’s record on civil rights as one of “repeated deviation” from the fundamental separation of powers and constitutionally implied autonomy of the states. A small group of southern Members rose on the House Floor to applaud Smith’s brief speech; no Member rose to speak against it.

The South, once again, was right.

>>17769185 (OP)
>The South, once again, was right.
Grim but true. My ancestors died for this bloated piece of shit we have now? Fucking A.

>>17769185 (OP)
>muh state rights
Why do state rights always just happen to involve black people?

>>17769185 (OP)
>the Rules Committee became a graveyard for numerous civil rights initiatives in the 1950s.
I suggest the U.S. try returning to the historical value of freedom of association, which has been trampled on only in more recent years. I suggest that the courts overrule and overturn as unconstitutional all anti-discrimination laws for anyone except the government itself.

The reasons for this are as follows: There are obviously no real, objective categories of what is or isn't a "protected class" in the first place. It's all a big hullabaloo. The federal and state governments might each have their own operating principles. But nobody has the right to decide what those categories are, or to impose those specific categories, on an individual who may not agree. We see this with the insanity of "sexual orientation," with every made-up fantasy being turned into a protected class. It's all unconstitutional.

In a purely hypothetical scenario, if the decision were up to me, I would immediately say that white people are a protected class and NOT blacks. So then why is the opposite the only categorization that people are forced to abide by? Only because of government overreach. They have no more right to do the opposite of what I would do than to do what I would do. The government should not be forcing anyone to prefer or protect any category over another, because they just have no right to do so. No more than they have the right to enforce my view on who should be a protected class and who should be left out.

This obviously gets rid of the whole concept of punishing citizens because of "disparate impact" (i.e., a doctrine which suffers from the fallacy of correlation without causation), since there is really no such thing as a "protected class" enforceable on anyone except the government itself.

>>17769586
https://youtu.be/LasrD6SZkZk
The US empire only likes to move when they can twist it politically as them being the good guys. The North dismantled the southern economy in a fit of rage and then claimed it was to save blacks. Then again 100 years later they passed civil rights to desegregate schools. To this day in more left wing states minority and white children are bussed neighborhood to neighborhood to go to different schools so their whiteness can "rub off" on the minorities

>>17769185 (OP)
Bleeding heart Northern liberals want you to live around them but will gladly live in gated communities and send their kids to private schools

We can wax poetic about equal rights all we want, but after seeings its effects o white communities, how can anyone ever possibly say integration was for the best?
>>17769586
Because the states without many black people really want to give black people access to white Southerners.