Thread 17930687

On March 12, 1956 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.

If only he knew how worse it was gonna get it

oh noes not teh skawey bwack peepoo!!!

>>17931085
Holy fucking kek I've never see this one before

the main issued was not deporting them in the first place. if it was done humanely and properly, we won't have had this problem in the first place.

>>17931085
>black women between 24-35 kill more than White men and women combined
Damn

>>17930687 (OP)
>states’ rights.

>>17931085
you've never met a black person irl if you take this seriously

>>17931149
Statistics say he'd likely be dead if he did meet one

>>17931184
everyone i've met is alive, last time i checked. your momma says hi btw

>>17931085
kek

>>17931149
purely socioeconomic factors
actually, it's based. 18th century irish were based duellists too
ok, it's not based but white people deserve it
ok, mostly black folx die but white people really pulled the trigger metaphorically

>>17931273
you made up a conversation. bravo.

>>17931307
that didn't happen, but it should have
and it was justified in any case

>>17931314
????

>>17931085
Notice how its not even a question. Its a statement.