My impression has always been that his administration only championed civil rights in order to remove a powerful talking point from the Soviet Union, and to head off the appeal of communism among black Americans . He also kicked off that dumbass Apollo project – basically a dick-measuring contest with the communist bloc – which ended up pouring a lot of money that could have gone to improve race relations into a literal hole in the sky.
So JFK was the 1st non racist president damn America took 35 presidents to have non racist leader bruh moment
Yeah, and I don’t know if I’d exactly call him non-racist.
How was he racist anyway
My impression has always been that his administration only championed civil rights in order to remove a powerful talking point from the Soviet Union, and to head off the appeal of communism among black Americans . He also kicked off that dumbass Apollo project – basically a dick-measuring contest with the communist bloc – which ended up pouring a lot of money that could have gone to improve race relations into a literal hole in the sky.