Posted on 09/10/2015 11:19:14 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Jim Crow laws touched every part of life
When All in the Family made its big splash back in the 1970s, I couldn’t see why it was supposed to be a comedy when it reflected the home I grew up in so closely. I looked for cameras outside our windows. Yet I bought into MLK’s vision of a color-blind America. I wanted and still want to see a land where people are judged by the content of their character instead of by any arbitrary circumstances, skin color, social class, nationality, or anything else.
In the segregated South and the bigoted North of my youth I could see the injustice and I applauded the opportunity to strive for a society built upon the best and the brightest. After generations of trying to get there all I can ask is “Are we there yet?” And if the answer is no after the expenditure of trillions of dollars and after the imposition of quotas, set asides, busing, and other court mandated absurdities, when are we going to be there?
I say absurdities because the very idea that a government that seeks to end all discrimination based on skin color uses guidelines and policies based on skin color is patently absurd. Or at least it would have been considered so before we went through the looking glass from a constitutionally limited government of the people by the people and for the people to an all-powerful regime with an imperial president ruling by decree and a black robed priesthood able to make laws like the Almighty writing on stone tablets.
“the very idea that a government that seeks to end all discrimination based on skin color uses guidelines and policies based on skin color is patently absurd.”
After all, skin color is not a birth defect!
I agree with the article. I also bought into the Color Blind idea of Martin Luther King Jr and can assure that all people my age and place (63 years old, raised in Massachusetts) were taught this and still be believe this. Now I am told by daughter, a junior high school teacher in Long Beach, Ca that this approach is not approved anymore. Now we need to recognize all differences in people, pay heed to these differences, and be sensitive to all of this in all ways. This is making progress? Actually it is making things worse.
During the millennium. Until then, there is more mammon to be made by racial divisiveness than with MLK's dream, and enough fools of all races to perpetuate the divisions.
This article rightly points out that, to the extent that the United States has ill effects from the legacy of slavery and discrimination, its a legacy primarily created by Democrats. The Democrats fought to preserve slavery. Then after they lost the Civil War, the country could have had racial healing but no, the Democrats re-imposed a racial spoils system on the areas they controlled. When the Democrats finally got back into power in the White House with Woodrow Wilson, they imposed white supremacy at the federal level too. The absolutely destroyed any racial healing that took place from 1865 through 1912 in a raw quest for political power. Now they are doing it in the opposite direction — ginning up black racial grievances to stay in power. If you want to know who is most responsible for racial strife in America, look no further than the Democratic Party.
If only the History that is taught could be History at the default level.
Oh?
Aside from the usual aberrations such as wine spots, blotches or whatever it is that Michael Jackson had...Being born black is not a birth defect, okay?
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