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.
And Teddy Roosevelt was one of the least openly racist American presidents up until maybe JFK. Think about that.
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.