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Posted on 07/23/2020 5:38:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., died last week. In 1965, Lewis suffered a fractured skull when he led 600 civil rights workers on a peaceful protest that turned violent as Lewis and the protesters were attacked by the police on the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Ten years earlier, Rosa Parks famously challenged the Jim Crow segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat in the front section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The Supreme Court, a year earlier, unanimously struck down "separate but equal" school laws. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. King's birthday is now a national holiday.
Today, there are more Black elected officials in Mississippi (the state where three civil rights workers were brutally murdered in 1964) than in any other state in America. About 12% of the House of Representatives is Black, close to the percentage of Blacks in America.
There have been Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, including McDonald's, Merrill Lynch, and American Express. Voters have elected Black senators. A Black man was elected governor of Virginia, one of the states of the Confederacy. We have had back-to-back Black attorneys general and back-to-back Black secretaries of state. Virtually every major American city has or has had a Black mayor, including New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, whose current mayor is a Black, gay female.
In 1964, King said that the country was making such racial progress -- "changes," King said, "that surprise me." King predicted, based on our rapid progress, "We may be able to get a Negro president in less than 40 years." In 2008, America elected Barack Obama.
Obama got a higher percentage of the white vote than did John Kerry four years earlier. And despite getting elected with 52% of the vote, President-elect Obama walked into office in January 2009 with a nearly 70% approval rating. Why? Voters, even those who did not vote for Obama, thought they hired the presidential candidate they saw on "60 Minutes." Asked by correspondent Steve Kroft whether his race could cause him to lose, Obama, not yet the front-runner for the nomination, said, "No." He said that if he fails to win, "it will be because of other factors," such as failing to show "the American people a vision for where the country needs to go that they can embrace."
This is not your grandfather's America.
What today's social justice warriors complain about has little to do with "equal rights" and more to do with unequal results. In 1991, Orlando Patterson, a Black Harvard sociology professor, wrote: "The sociological truths are that America, while still flawed in its race relations ... is now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or Black; offers more opportunities to a greater number of Black persons than any other society, including all those of Africa."
There is a crisis within the Black community, and it's the unconscionably high dropout rate at many of our urban high schools. Baltimore, in 2017, had 13 public high schools where 0% of kids could do math at grade level, and another half-dozen where only 1% could do so.
A white friend, who, in the 1990s, taught at the University of Chicago, recently told me a sad but all too common story. In a Borders bookstore, my professor friend saw a Black boy, approximately 10 years old, sitting and reading a book. My friend does not recall the book but said it was a serious book, not a children's book or a picture book.
But another Black kid, about the same age, walked up to him and said: "Why are you reading that? You're trying to be white." The reader promptly closed the book, put it down and began walking away. My friend, however, rushed over to them and said: "Wait. Don't stop reading. Reading is important to be successful in life. You should read as much and as often as you can, if you want to be successful." The Black kid who was critical about reading turned to his friend and, "See, I told you it would make you white." The kid who had been reading nodded in agreement with his friend and continued walking away.
Where is Black Lives Matter when you need them? One cannot pin this on racism. This is Black self-sabotage.
Again, equal rights and equal results are two different things. And we should not understate the astonishing progress of Blacks since liberation from slavery, when most Blacks could neither read nor write. Economist Walter Williams said, "Black Americans have come a greater distance, over some of the highest hurdles, in a shorter period of time than any other racial group." Thomas Sowell, responding to a statement that Blacks haven't "caught up" with whites, noted, "Well, whites haven't stood still."
They view it as an ongoing fight.
Sorry but this glorification and canonization of John Lewis is nauseating. Throughout his congressional career he supported abortion on demand that killed millions of pre born black lives. Nor did he object when his fellow liberals located their abortion mills in predominantly black and minority neighborhoods. He is no hero.
Certain demographics don’t want equal opportunity, they want equal outcome.
BLM has belatedly decided that Col. Lloyd Garrison was right, and since the Constitution countenanced slavery, it was a pact with the Devil, and since the free states failed to secede from the Union, they were all eeeeeevil!, too. So they are accepting the view of a white man against that of Frederick Douglas, a former slave, who believed that the Constitution and Declaration were incompatible with slavery, and that since the Constitution was drafted in order to make a more perfect union, it would in time reject slavery entirely in spite of the temporary allowances it made for the institution, and therefore every time a slave holder saluted the heroes of the Revolution, he doomed himself. History has proven Frederick Douglas right, but belatedly, BLM is listening to that honkey Garrison instead of the soul bro. Therefore, the Civil Rights Movement was simply too little, too late, and irrelevant. Whitey is evil. Paleface Lloyd Garrison said so.
The hateful and spiteful Lewis is another loser who, so intoxicated by Washington DC, died in his chair. Like McCain and Cummings they think it matters. My 4 kids couldn’t pick these clowns out of a lineup. They are already forgotten.
Because the special classes that Booker T Washington so famously described need to make their Cold Hard Cash... Make it by selling all of us out...grifters of the lowest order...purveyors of misery..
The only time they’ll declare victory is when all the crackers are dead and they have all of their wealth.
Why? Follow the money.
Agreed! We’re still fighting it - at some levels - because people like John Lewis, Jesse Jackson and others have discovered that they can profit from keeping it alive.
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Excellent. Thanks for posting
Why? Because there’s millions to be made baby!
Also, its a vehicle for the left to ride into power. Blacks are cannon fodder to the white liberal elite and the lunatics working for them.
Douglass had it right. The Declaration of Independence set out our ideals as a people — All men are created equal and have certain inalienable rights. We are also humans, and as such are imperfect. We have failed to live up to this ideal, more so at some times in our history than others. The Constitution was such an example. It contains language that recognized the political reality of the late 18th century. Unfortunately part of that reality was that slavery was legal in many states. In order to get the Constitution ratified, this was necessary. It does not mean the Constitution was pro slavery, though, just that the Founders has to bow to the practicalities of their time.
I thought welfare and affirmative action cured this?
Well, I can understand completely that your "certain demographics" have a fixed and unalterable belief that equal outcomes is EXACTLY what they were promised (and I agree with them, they WERE promised exactly that by the President, by the Congress, and by their leaders).
You have to be a blind man not to see that the increasing rage we see all around us is because the nation and its government have not delivered on this promise.
Now, of course, this is not what white people MEANT TO SAY when they agreed to the "civil rights revolution", but YT sure didn't try very hard to make it clear exactly what price blacks would have to pay for "integration", and what the inevitable results would be.
BLM: If you are white, you are a racist. If you are black, you are an Uncle Tom. Anyone who disagrees with us is either the one, or the other. And even if you agree with us and are white, you are still a racist.
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