re: When will whites start using the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to sue the government

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I think the intent is that it would allow for Black farmers that never received a settlement from some USDA claims long ago regarding loans or something....would get paid

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No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

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Not saying it's right....especially since it doesnt really have safeguards to make sure it only goes to those farmers that should have had a previous claim.

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In fairness, it is unlikely that the 1964 Congress even considered the remote possibility that any federal program in the future would explicitly exclude whites.

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Which makes the irony of using it so delightful.

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What about the Vermont vaccine decree?

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Bravo for being consistent

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Revenge? So the party that committed every single atrocity leading to the CRA, voted against the CRA,

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The Watts Riot, which raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage, was both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era. The riot spurred from an incident on August 11, 1965 when Marquette Frye, a young African American motorist, was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. Minikus, a white California Highway Patrolman, for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. As a crowd on onlookers gathered at the scene of Frye's arrest, strained tensions between police officers and the crowd erupted in a violent exchange. The outbreak of violence that followed Frye's arrest immediately touched off a large-scale riot centered in the commercial section of Watts, a deeply impoverished African American neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. For several days, rioters overturned and burned automobiles and looted and damaged grocery stores, liquor stores, department stores, and pawnshops. Over the course of the six-day riot, over 14,000 California National Guard troops were mobilized in South Los Angeles and a curfew zone encompassing over forty-five miles was established in an attempt to restore public order. All told, the rioting claimed the lives of thirty-four people, resulted in more than one thousand reported injuries, and almost four thousand arrests before order was restored on August 17. Throughout the crisis, public officials advanced the argument that the riot was the work outside agitators; however, an official investigation, prompted by Governor Pat Brown, found that the riot was a result of the Watts community's longstanding grievances and growing discontentment with high unemployment rates, substandard housing, and inadequate schools.

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I think the intent is that it would allow for Black farmers that never received a settlement from some USDA claims long ago regarding loans or something....would get paid.

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