Genesis 1: 26 Then God said, 'Let us make man in OUR Image, according to our likeness
27 So God created Man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them . male and female.
In The Beginning GOD Created man and woman in His Image. It does not say color it does not say nationality it does not state tall or short, weak or strong. I find that It is imperative that WE the People created by our God in His image should take a good hard look in the mirror and at each other. God made no mistakes, not with His creation. We have always had the opportunity to live in harmony with each other. But somewhere around 1600 Black men where brought over from Africa as our minions. And for approximately 200 years we doubled tripled the amount of Black people to tend our farms, take care of our households. Work for no wage, no rights, to be sold at the owners whim to be used by owners as propagation for more young slaves. Women were raped, beaten and separated from families. Young children were taken from parents and sold to different masters. Where did we get off enslaving people, where did we get the idea that we were better than blacks, that they had no rights, not until 1964. And then it took years to change the minds of certain Republicans. Be4 the segregated bathrooms, drinking fountains, seating in restaurants churches, the idea of black congresspersons, even black mayors, governors, and not until 2008 We the People elected the first black President. Does that change the way we look at blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Mexican. Unfortunetly no, we still look at others differently, and I believe that Martin Luther King if he was still here would be appalled by what he would be seeing. He had a dream and we as human beings have a long way to go to get to Kings dream. And now the 112th Congress Republicans want to change things and that scares me.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public ("public accommodations"). Powers given to enforce the act were initially weak, but were supplemented during later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under theFifteenth Amendment.
The bill was called for by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11, 1963,[1] in which he asked for legislation "giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public—hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments," as well as "greater protection for the right to vote."
In late November 1963 the Assassination of John F. Kennedy changed the political situation. The new president, Lyndon Johnson, utilized his experience in legislative politics and the bully pulpit he wielded as president in support of the bill. In his first address to Congress on November 27, 1963, Johnson told the legislators, "No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long."[4
On the return of Congress from the winter recess, however, it became apparent that public opinion in the North favored the bill and the petition would acquire the necessary signatures. To prevent the humiliation of the success of the petition, Chairman Smith allowed the bill to pass through the Rules Committee. The bill was brought to a vote in the House on February 10, 1964, and passed by a vote of 290 to 130, and sent to the Senate.
The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.[6] Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."[7]
The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC): "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the Reconstruction proposals and actions of the radical Republican Congress."[8]
On June 19, the substitute (compromise) bill passed the Senate by a vote of 71–29, and quickly passed through the House-Senate conference committee, which adopted the Senate version of the bill. The conference bill was passed by both houses of Congress, and was signed into law by President Johnson on July 2, 1964.[11]
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