[Baynative]

There seems to be growing resentment in the black community that is leading to unchecked criminalism and wanton violence against any victims they choose.

[sten]

*pssst*

Dr King wasn’t a liberal ... he was a republican and he was fighting against liberal democrats

sorry to toss facts on your black panter party

[randita]

He finally got to the point here:

“Of being seduced by a welfare state that subsidizes and enables single black mothers who try to provide for the 73% of all black children who are born out of wedlock. Of watching traditional black culture disintegrate along with the black family.”

All barriers to achievement and success that were removed in 1964 have been negated by the total disintegration of the black family unit and culture.

[Standing Wolf]

[The approach of the Kennedy White House to race relations, by the way, was similar to the way Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama approached gay rights. One is tempted to call it "cowardly." In all these cases, the politicians waited until public opinion had clearly shifted before announcing their own change of heart and before doing or saying anything that would be considered politically risky. In other words, these presidents didn't lead. They followed.]

I don't know why that paragraph was put in brackets: it actually goes to the crux of the matter. I can't prove this, but have a hunch it was this simple: as soon as we ordinary people saw on television how civil rights marchers were treated in the late 1950s and early 1960s, we decided we'd had enough of Jim Crow. Before we saw it on television, it didn't impinge on us very deeply; the moment we saw fire hoses and police dogs and Bull Connor and George Wallace, however, we decided, "Aw, wait a minute! That's not right!"

I think we, the people got over Jim Crow in short order; most unfortunately, the feral government went into the business of "fighting racism" in a big way, and has since spent not billions, but trillions of dollars. It's made a monumentally huge investment in racism, real, imaginary, or otherwise. Racism is a leftist extremist gold mine—unless it's not a gold mine at all, but a legal mint. As long as it can keep "fighting racism," it can keep creating new jobs for government bureaucrats and demanding more money—and more and more and more after that.

Heck. "Fighting racism" pushed the space program all the way off the table, and the U.S. military is being pushed after it.

Money is to government as heroin and cocaine are to drug addicts.