The Decline of the Civil-Rights Establishment

Wall Street Journal ^ | July 21, 2013 | Shelby Steele

[Biggirl]

Let’s just say that the old, beat-up, used “race card” has been declined.

[Uncle Chip]

The BGI has descended from trying to lynch an innocent Hispanic to accusing a jury of 6 women [1 black] of racism for their jury verdict to blaming all whites for not joining them in their hallucination.

Here is one of those great moments in historical hallucinations shortly after the infamous family conclave in the mayors office:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9RnHIe0i2g#at=180

Look at Natalie Jackson — she has aged about 20 years in the last year

[Stingray]

“Let’s just say that the old, beat-up, used “race card” has been declined.”

Yep. Tired of hearing whiny b!tches yell “racism” at every turn, as though we don’t have a black _resident and attorney general. It’s the same, tired, racist politics Coleman Young used to engage in: the white suburbs were racists! For years he was accused of creating a “fortress Detroit, us against them” mentality. Look where its gotten Detroit today.

Black America has, in large part, failed to assimilate in America and its because of the cries of racism its so-called leaders throw around at every turn.

[carlo3b]

They were calling for Race Rioting, and only got Race Baiting.. They must have sent their message in cursive.. :)

[Iron Munro]

The old race pimps are like old movie idols from the silent film era - wondering why the phone doesn't ring anymore.

They long for the good old days when they wielded power and could destroy reputations and careers with the mere accusation of “Racist”.

Now the word has been so overused that no one pays any attention to their rants.

Times have changed and the roles have been reversed - People like Obama, Holder, Jackson, Sharpton and organizations like the NAACP are now the real racists.

Every now and then an issue like the Zimmerman/Trayvon case rises up and the old race pimps over-react, trying to recapture the center stage and the lost importance of their early years.

But they always end up just making bigger fools of themselves.

[Truth2012]

The truth is that the only racism I have ever seen in America is racism against white people.

I used to be full of empathy for blacks and their “plight”, but no more.

Everyone in my family has been a victim of some sort of crime or racism against us, because we are white. EACH PERSON!
Rioting, Terrorism, Rape, theft- and then heaps of affirmative action which denies us OUR Civil Rights... and frankly I am D.O.N.E

[hoosiermama]

Do the educated people say dis and dat and wif when they are not in front of a microphone pandering to “their people” or is it just to part of the card?

[MeshugeMikey]

” tapes was released even against Advice from their Advisors.”

Mister T would refer to this as JIBBER JABBER!

[SoFloFreeper]

Shelby can say this ‘cause he is black, right? A white or even a white Hispanic would be racist if they said this....

[SoFloFreeper]

Shelby can say this ‘cause he is black, right? A white or even a white Hispanic would be racist if they said this....

[AlanGreenSpam]

So-called “DIVERSITY” is a code word for “NON-WHITE.”

“AFFIRMATIVE ACTION” is a code word for “STATE-SANCTIONED RACISM.”

All these sneaky feel-good terms invented by the left are just a way to slickly package their evil socioeconomic policies.

Don’t fall for it, sheeple!

[SoFloFreeper]

Reading this, it seems the demise Steele is detailing in the civil rights movement can also be said of America and the Christian church in America.....the leadership has profoundly failed all three, with a few rare exceptions.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Decline? I dunno. They seem to be filling the old coffers quite nicely over the corpse of 17 year old Trayvon.

[Carry_Okie]

This would not be the first time that a movement begun in profound moral clarity, and that achieved greatness, waned away into a parody of itself—not because it was wrong but because it was successful....

The movement was successful, but then its people were co-opted into a life of compensatory indolence. With all the tools of success arrayed before them, much of black America and particularly its urban cohort, chose the path of indentured constituency, and thence to failure as a people.

[Night Hides Not]

I used to be full of empathy for blacks and their “plight”, but no more.

My reservoir of empathy has been been sucked drier than the Sahara Desert.

Everybody has their hands out, and that includes RINOs.

[CodeToad]

I, for one, have NEVER held blacks or hispanics to any other standard than the one I hold everyone, including white, to. Just because that makes them lazy ignorant slobs in my book is not racist, they just are.

[MeshugeMikey]

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[EricT.]

Ping for later.

Got work to do.

[Uncle Chip]

Do the educated people say dis and dat and wif when they are not in front of a microphone pandering to “their people”

dat's when dey be speakin in code so dat der peeps know when to lissenup.