{"id":12537,"date":"2014-04-12T00:14:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T07:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=12537"},"modified":"2014-04-12T00:14:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T07:14:58","slug":"obama-on-the-civil-rights-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/12\/obama-on-the-civil-rights-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama on the Civil Rights Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday President Barack Obama spoke to the assembly commemorating the 5oth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.&#160; In my view, it was Obama oratory at it\u2019s finest, but you be the judge of that.&#160; I have an article, the complete video, and a link to the transcript for you.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0412obama-civil-rights-act\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0412obama-civil-rights-act\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/0412obama-civil-rights-act.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"228\" \/>For three days, the veterans of a long-ago movement reunited and drew together their spiritual heirs to explore the legacy of the Civil Rights Act a half-century after it transformed America. And then the legacy walked onstage.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama presented himself on Thursday as the living, walking, talking and governing embodiment of the landmark 1964 law that banned discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech that stirred an audience of civil rights champions here at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, Mr. Obama acknowledged that racism has hardly been erased and that government programs have not always succeeded. But, he added, \u201cI reject such cynicism because I have lived out the promise of L.B.J.\u2019s efforts, because Michelle has lived out the legacy of those efforts, because my daughters have lived out the legacy of those efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the law and the movement that spawned it and the progress made after it, Mr. Obama said, \u201cnew doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody,\u201d regardless of race, ethnicity, disability or sexual orientation. \u201cThey swung open for you, and they swung open for me,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I\u2019m standing here today, because of those efforts, because of that legacy.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/11\/us\/politics\/50-years-later-obama-salutes-passage-of-civil-rights-act.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the video.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_C7J5QhzySc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For a transcript, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/running-transcript-president-obama-speaks-on-civil-rights-at-lbj-memorial\/2014\/04\/10\/b10ec34c-c0d5-11e3-b195-dd0c1174052c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Most of us think of LBJ in terms of the Vietnam War. Obama did an excellent job of fleshing out the man to present his good side.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Obama is right that history moves in all directions, and Republicans are doing their utmost to return us to the paradigm of lynching and Jim Crow. Obama is spot on to reject Republican cynicism and racism.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Obama is right that our rights and freedoms must be won over and over again. Republicans will not stop trying to take them away.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday President Barack Obama spoke to the assembly commemorating the 5oth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.&#160; In my view, it was Obama oratory at it\u2019s finest, but you be the judge of that.&#160; I have an article, the complete video, and a link to the transcript for you. 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