to preserve the predominantly racial characteristics that have contributed to Western civilization over the past two thousand years,” Kilpatrick told the NBC audience, “and we do not believe that the way to preserve them lies in fostering any intimate race mixing by which these principles and characteristics inevitably must be destroyed.” In addition to sex and civilization, Kilpatrick cited a host of legal precedents against the sit-ins and then denounced them as a “boorish exhibition” of “plain bad manners.”
Steve king
