Posted on 08/15/2013 11:11:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Martin Luther King would not be amused by the pitiful current state of the civil rights movement.
End the civil rights movement. Now. Shoot the sucker and put it (and us) out of its misery.
It’s a relic of the 1960s about as relevant as bell bottom trousers.
When we are debating Oprah Winfrey’s right to buy a thirty-five thousand dollar purse or whether Barack Obama’s dog should be flown to Martha’s Vineyard in the canine’s own private state-of-the art military transport, you know it’s finished. Or should be.
It’s also time for the NAACP and the Black Caucus to close up shop. They are dinosaurs from another era, making life miserable for the very people they are intended to help.
Black unemployment is at record levels during the administration of the first black president and that horrible situation is aided and abetted by those organizations. They are determined to preserve the image of black people as victims — an insulting self-fullfilling prophecy. What was once a solution has become the problem.
Affirmative action should also be flushed down the toilet with the civil rights movement. It contributes to the same syndrome of victimhood, simultaneously dividing our society, which is divided enough already.
The race card is a perfect example of this division and why this movement should be extinguished. Anybody who plays the race card in our country today is less than pond scum. It has become the 21st century equivalent of accusing someone of witchcraft in seventeenth century Salem.
Anyone who uses the race card should be considered a pariah automatically. It’s almost always projection.
Black and brown people above all would profit from the end of the civil rights movement. We already have strong civil rights legislation. If anyone breaks the law, prosecute them. Meanwhile, move on. Stop dwelling on discrimination. Stop scratching the scab and let it heal.
Let’s find some productive work for Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the rest. Find them a shovel-ready project.
And forget about race.
Forget about Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman and all of that.
Stop the endless discussions of race on the cable news networks, send the talking heads out to pasture or make them blather on about something else, force Geraldo to ignore the next phony story about someone who allegedly called somebody something twenty years ago when they had too much bourbon.
And absolutely no more talk of the n-word, crackers or any other racial epithet known or unknown. Just drop it.
And when we discuss Oprah, tell it like it really is — she’s a celebrity who has been extremely rich and famous for decades and has almost no idea what it’s really like to be a shopgirl in Zurich or anywhere else.
Her story is one of Marie Antoinette, not Rosa Parks.
And that’s the point. Rosa Parks was a very brave woman who made a tremendous contribution to our country — in 1955! That’s almost sixty years ago. Stop this nostalgia for racism. Stop playing the race card. Switch to Old Maid — or rummy. End the civil rights movement. We should all honor Rosa Parks’ great contribution by moving on.
I can’t or shouldn’t say much because I’m not an American...but last night I saw Jessie Jackson on TV weeping about how his son had been depressed and needed help, he wasn’t responsible...
And I thought to myself, better change the channel quick before I throw up. How many more generations of professional victimhood need you go through before you wake up you’re being abused and used?
Are we so sure of that? Every once in a while someone likes to claim he was a Republican but that's a load of BS. If he were still alive today he may well be an elderly Jesse Jackson type figure.
Remember. Jesse Jackson was MLK's lieutenant and and picked successor. For many years, the MSM portrayed Jesse in the same light as MLK. If it wasn't for alternative media, Jesse would still be a respected figure innAmerican politics.
One only wonders what the image of MLK would be today if the alternative media existed back then. Perhaps he was not the Saint that the media portrays him to be??? I can guarantee that MLK would have been leading marches for Trayvon.
Yes, MLK was a Republican and had endorsed Nixon over Kennedy. JFK and his brother made a deal with one of the Southern governors to have king arrested and jailed. then JFK called King’s wife and the governor. He asked the governor to release King, and the gov, did—this was a set-up. The gov told king that JFK got him out and Nixon had done nothing. MLK turned Democrat immediately. Had been GOP all his life.
Once they win, they don't know what to do so they keep at it and make things worse when they should simply celebrate the victory and go home.
With Civil Rights, when you're looking at code words and facial movements to detect racism, you've simply gone too far and are looking under rocks to make yourself still relevant. The problem was Government. Once Government was corrected ... there really was no good reason to keep pushing.
Its like the question we have about all the Cancer Fundraising groups. Once a cure is found, what happens to them then? Do they celebrate and disband or do they kill the scientist who found the cure because their mission in life is then over?
Mark Levin read most of this as his show was ending today.
It’s a great piece of writing.
And - it has not a chance in hell of leaving a single ripple in the pond of sludge that passes for a mind among the majority of Blacks.
They are really quite hopeless, and will continue to be played masterfully (great word choice there) by the Libs and the BGI (Black Grievance Industry) I’m afraid.
Time for a White History month...since whites are now history.
Totally agree.
Put the racial hucksters like Sharpton and Jackson out of business and all Americans on the same legal footing. Affirmative action is unconstitutional at its core and was one of the very first levers of the politically correct poison which is destroying our society.
Being a victim has been one of the best paying gigs in history. You gotta be
dreaming if you think anybody’s gonna give that up.
Being a victim means escaping responsibility.
Republicans love their faux heroes; MLK (commie, slut, liar), Lincoln (tyrant, liar, murderer), T. Roosevelt (Liar, Progressive), Jack Kemp (idiot economist), Romney/McCain (un-presidents).
You’re confused. MLK, SENIOR endorsed Nixon. The only Republican that MLK, Jr. was known to have endorsed was Eisenhower in 1956 (which wasn’t that surprising, as NYC Democrat Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. also endorsed Ike). I don’t believe Jr. ever openly aligned himself with the GOP, either before 1960, and certainly not after.
Had he lived into the ‘70s or ‘80s, his sexual indiscretions would’ve ended up his undoing. I’ve found his canonization to be... unfortunate. There were so many people involved in Civil Rights who had a higher moral standard, but he was made the face of it. My father saw him in person, so he has been demystified to me, and he was not very impressed.
Yeah he wasn’t the worse but certainly not the best.
And he was no Republican/Conservative according to any evidence.
He also was educated at the Communist Highlander Folk School here in TN.
Folk School? That doesn’t sound good.
All perfectly obvious - and “too hard” to do. Until and unless the Great Enabler - that is, the Associated Press - is tamed. And taming that is impossible until and unless the AP and its members individually are held to account in a venue which they do not politically control. Such a venue exists, tenuously, in the present majority on SCOTUS.The sovereign remedy for “bias in the media,” IMHO, would be to sue the AP and each of its members individually. George Zimmerman would be the perfect lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit. GZ was libeled egregiously, most notably by NBC with its broadcasting of a question to GZ followed by the GZ answer to a different question. But white conservatives were also libeled by the application of the nomenclature “white hispanic” to, not GZ himself, but to the caricature of GZ promoted by NBC and the AP and its member newspapers. They are all in cahoots, in perfect validation of the Adam Smith assertion thatPeople of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)The membership of the AP has been meeting together, virtually over the AP newswire, continually since before the Civil War. And "political correctness” is the “conspiracy against the public” which has resulted from that “meeting.” Suing for libel has generally been difficult, for the simple reason that the individual target you choose can always point fingers to other members of the AP as “sources” for their libel. The answer, IMHO, is to sue them all.
In the late 1960s, MLK was campaigning against the Vietnam War and siding with govt’t unions in labor disputes. If MLK was alive today, he would declare opposition to Obama to be racist. Heck, MLK might have been in a cabinet position setting guidelines for “fairness” in an Obama Administration.
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