Reverse discrimination

[Calvin Johnson]

Get real.   Hubert Humphrey was trying to lift up an oppressed class, not put a lid on their aspirations and accomplishment.  As long as Blacks were an underclass, his language allowed efforts to lift them up.   COngress did not infact give every slave 5 acres and a mule as they passed 13-15th A  But they sure could have, even without giving every White confederate veteran  a mule and 5 acres.    
   It is cutsey argument only to say Humphreys language really meant "keep a lid on Blacks  and dont help them too much."  I dont see it as an element or implied by the original anti-discrimination rhetoric.       

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> Fifty years ago liberals in the Hubert Humphrey sense believed that
> people should be treated without regard to race and that distributing
> burdens and benefits on the basis of race was plain wrong as well as
> illegal and immoral. Now they don't. They used to believe that
> color-conscious racial favoritism was the essence of discrimination.
> Now many of them believe that opposition to color-conscious racial
> favoritism is racist. What happened?
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