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To: boycott; Bernard Marx
The civil rights movement was hijacked by Communists

It's more accurate to say that the premises of what you call the "civil rights movement", once they were widely accepted by whites, created an opportunity for the communists that had not existed before.

No white people that I knew (though I was and I am a damn yankee) believed that, if the goals expressed by the CRM were enacted into law, that the condition of black America (expressed as a collective) would be radically worse in 2014 than they were in 1964. "Civil rights" has had FIFTY YEARS to work its magic, and the results are all around you.

Communists have obviously successfully exploited those results, but they did not create them.

147 posted on 08/18/2014 6:52:18 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Jim Noble

The original goal of the Civil Rights movement was equality of opportunity, regardless of skin color.

It became equality of outcome regardless of culture.


149 posted on 08/18/2014 6:53:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Jim Noble

“Civil rights” has had FIFTY YEARS to work its magic, and the results are all around you.


So true. One thing for certain is that the system is broken.


150 posted on 08/18/2014 6:58:14 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Jim Noble
Communists have obviously successfully exploited those results, but they did not create them.

History agrees with you.

It was not until the mid-seventies that the domestic Communist movement (Weathermen, SDS, etc.) concluded that violent action was getting them nowhere. A national conclave was called (in Chicago) and they agreed to pursue a different strategy of attacking from within the system. Infiltration of the education establishment, the media and the civil rights movement became paramount objectives.

Using the civil rights movement allowed them to employ disaffected blacks as surrogates for any violent action.

LBJ's War On Poverty created the conditions that allowed this strategy to flourish.

151 posted on 08/18/2014 7:03:39 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: Jim Noble
Hmmmm. Seems to me your "correction" is a distinction without much of a difference. As David Horowitz writes in "Deconstructing the Left":

"No sooner was the civil rights revolution written into law than the radical left was agitating to overthrow it. 'Integration' was derided as 'Uncle Tomism' and 'co-optation'; 'Black Power' became the slogan of the radical agenda. Martin Luther King was now a legend of the discarded past; Malcolm X was the prophet of the radical future."

165 posted on 08/18/2014 8:57:57 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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