The New Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King was a conservative who believed in the Bill of Rights, states’ rights, and the rights of the individual. He believed in making each person stronger, less dependent.

Minorities have been exploited just to provide more power to politicians who cause more addiction to government … not unlike drug pushers. Addiction causes the destruction of the will of a person … any addiction … even addiction to government.

Minorities need to rise up and throw off the chains of dependence on government. They should rise up and throw off the chains of dependence that make them slaves to government. Minorities need a new civil rights movement to stop the Democrats from addicting more minorities to dependence on the nanny state.

Minority individuals need to become "independent." They need to become strong individuals. And how can they do that if they support the Democrat party that is making them more dependent, more addicted, to government?

Democrat politicians have caused addiction and dependence that is destructive at helping minorities achieve individual Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Democrat politicians have destroyed the individual by placing government as more important than individual initiative.

Since the late 1960's Blacks, specifically, have been taught that they are perpetual victims by virtue of their race and so, will always need government 'assistance' to have an 'equal chance' because, in their view, 'society' (whites) will always make their (minority) race an impediment to their success - in any field. This is the premise that was used to justify all forms of Affirmative Action and that has held so many Blacks in virtual bondage to the Democrat party and it's carefully orchestrated lowering of expectations for 'African-Americans'.

From there, this blatant fallacy extends to all sorts of government 'help' that has effectively destroyed Black families and in extreme cases, fostered Black hate groups, such as the 'New' Black Panthers, advocating violence against white people. After all, if you're Black and really believe that you are doomed to failure in whatever you do because white people keep you down, the leap to hating such people is fairly easy to make. Sadly, too many Blacks make that short leap and eventually find that it leads to the brick wall of pointless resentment and utter failure.

The big-government politician that tells Black people they'll 'fix' the 'inequality' of life and reward racial minorities with 'free' stuff, paid for by evil white folks, is a corrosive lie. Whatever 'help' the government gives is taken from all taxpaying citizens, Black and white, alike. The conscience-soothing lie that it's O.K. to take something you haven't earned because you've been unfairly prevented from achieving your rightful success in life can easily lead to all sorts of negative behavior, including crime, based on the fallacious lie that generates the 'you owe me' attitude seen today.

For almost 50 years, the Democrat party has pulled a fast one on Blacks and played them for fools. The Democrats routinely blocked Civil Right legislation in congress and only the efforts of Republicans got it passed in the mid-1960's. Democrats don't want that mentioned. Under President Lyndon Johnson, the Democrats erected a welfare system disguised as the 'War on Poverty' that replaced the father in Black families with a government check and began the long descent into the tragic situation of Black women having a 70% abortion rate and Black men making up a wildly disproportionate number of prison inmates, as well as having a very high college and high school drop-out rate, and on and on.

Yet, frustratingly, Blacks will line up behind whatever Democrat tells them what they want to hear. Their support of Barack Obama in the 2008 election was at well over 90% - and no one was the least bit surprised. That President Obama is a complete failure and does nothing for 'his race' seems to escape the notice of the Black community. Most Black commentators tend to be liberal. A conservative Black is considered an anomaly, if not a 'traitor to his race'. How ridiculous.

I agree that Blacks desperately need their own 'Declaration of Independence' - from the Democrat party. Unfortunately, I doubt that will happen any time soon.

“It is interesting that minorities support those very politicians who want to keep them dependent on government. Maybe they really do not want to be free.”

That’s actually perceptive. Our idea of slavery may not be totally accurate. I think most slave owners took care of their slaves and when they became “free” they had no idea what to do with themselves. They couldn’t figure out how to make enough money to keep themselves as well as their owners kept them.
So, being a slave was truly easier than being free. Personal freedom requires personal responsibility. Some figured it out some didn’t. Those who didn’t created the dependent underclass, always expecting someone else to take care of them. Let’s see, from 1865 to the FDR “savior” wasn’t really that long.

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