Silly person, blacks can’t be racist.
The author asks “The lawsuit seems to be one symptom of a larger problem. How did this sorry state of affairs come about? How can citizens and politicians fix Birmingham, and cities like it across the country? It doesn’t appear that a civil rights agenda can answer these questions going forward. Nor can any amount of government-given “opportunities,” resources, or any other euphemism for state involvement. Birmingham is simply past the point where legal, structural, or policy changes will ameliorate cultural pathology.
This “sorry state of affairs” has been painfully obvious for five decades now. Lets take a look. What do these cities have in common? Gary Indiana, Washington, D. C, Detroit, Newark, N. J., Oakland, Ca Birmingham, Memphis. Let’s add to the list. There are many examples.
“Silly person, blacks can’t be racist…”
That’s the essence of it.
This came to pass with the passage of one of the single most destructive American laws ever written — the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Right out of Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, the CRA created a new protected and privileged class of individuals. A racial group instantly presumed to be “discriminated against”, regardless of whether such discrimination actually occurred or not.
The CRA, ostensibly passed to “end” discrimination, instead institutionalized it and created an entire industry to assist the presumed victims of same. Those of the new protected class are instantly awarded benefits and privileges over “ordinary”, “non-protected” Americans.
The “discrim-industry” rolls on today as it has for decades. What do you need to get on board that train? Easy: just be of a certain ethnic group…
For the last fifty years, it has been the official policy of the United States to teach blacks from the very first years that they enter the school system that they are “victims” of “discrimination” by the whites. By the time these kids grow into their teens, what else is there for them to know?