The end of civil rights - If we really want to fix inequality, it's time for a new approach

America's racial problems are persistent and vexing, and since the 1960s, the nation has used a powerful weapon to fix them: the ideas developed during the civil rights movement. Courts and government agencies enforce legal prohibitions against discrimination; private businesses and universities fashion their own diversity policies based on civil-rights principles. Even private individuals think about race relations in civil-rights terms: we aspire to the ideal of "colorblindness," and condemn the evils of discrimination and bias...

But in the face of today's most severe racial inequities, the civil rights approach is nearly powerless. For example, many civil rights activists have begun to condemn the criminal justice system as "a new Jim Crow," a system overtly designed to privilege whites over blacks. As evidence, they point to racial disparities in the prison population, racial profiling, and harsher sentences for possession of crack than for powder cocaine. Last year's civil rights march on Jena, La., was inspired, in large part, by the idea that the criminal justice system is chronically biased: the "Jena Six" were stand-ins for the hundreds of thousands of young black men currently behind bars, on parole, or awaiting trial.

Similarly, the crack cocaine trade brought with it especially violent turf wars in poor, inner-city neighborhoods. When it did, black civic organizations in many cities called for more assertive law enforcement: an especially harsh penalty for crack cocaine possession was an understandable, if flawed, response. The result of these and other policies has been an explosion in the number of arrests and prosecutions of blacks - especially young black men. Calling the racial disparity in arrests and incarceration a "new Jim Crow" is certainly rhetorically dramatic, but it distracts attention from the real source of the problem: isolated and impoverished inner cities, where crime is a constant...

But in the face of today's most severe racial inequities, the civil rights approach is nearly powerless.

The civil rights movement, through the offices of charlatans and hucksters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, has squandered its moral energy. Coupled with the fact that racial inequities do not exist any more, except in the fevered imaginations of the perpetual victim class, and the movement is not just dying, it's dead.

The same is true of the so-called feminist movement. When the harridans from NOW stood by silent while Bill Clinton raped and fondled his way through eight years in the White House, they erased themselves as the voices for female equality, and showed themselves for the opportunists they really are.

One of the biggest proponents of racial inequality is the MSM itself.

Its self-censorship of half of racial conflicts actually makes them worse.

In this way, the government fails as well, for example, by prosecuting white on black racial crimes as “racist”, but ignoring equally racist crimes when they are black on white.

The purpose of this censorship and legal inequality is the same: for fear that by telling the truth, they will “fan the flames of hatred”.

But both the black and white public know they are being lied to by omission. They see that black racists aren’t being punished or even recognized as racist. As such, the black community is so unimportant that it doesn’t matter if they are racist or not. When outsiders don’t distinguish your good people from your bad people, you are all the same—bad.

And the black community is in an awful state this way. One out of every four black men is either in prison, or on probation or parole.

They are a dysfunctional community. Before national integration, when towns were split between the white part of town, and the black part of town, to the point where the black part of town had a pseudo government, as a community they had greater character.

By this I mean, if they were well ordered, then not only would bad members of their community be kicked out, but bad transients who stopped by would be encouraged to keep going. They kept a level of respectability, and though their children went to black schools, they used unequal resources to still try and get a good education.

Any society must be able to purge itself of its bad apples, or it soon becomes dominated by them.

With today’s government and MSM pretending that there is no such thing as black racism, black hatred, black crime and perfidy, they are making the situation far worse.

The end of civil rights - If we really want to fix inequality, it's time for a new approach

The only people who want equality of outcome are people who aren't willing to do the work of supporting the school in disciplining their children to hit the books.
And since parental support is the best predictor of scholarly success, the fact that "liberals" pay lip service to equality of result is mooted by the behavior of everyone, "liberal" or "conservative," who pushes to get his own children to have the best education they can get.
Until you see parents trying to make sure that their children's educations are not excellent but average, you can be absolutely certain that we don't want to fix inequality.

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