Every black demagogue who can freighten a cluster of black sheep into believing that whitey is out to get them can leverage the backing of that group into political clout, real or threatened, at the ballot box or additional wealth as in shake-downs, unearned contracts, or admissions/employment not based on merit.
Look no further than the fully segregated, racist Congressional Black Caucus. Individually, they are a bunch of mediocre Representatives trying to provide government employment to all their friends and relatives and earning what they can on the side. Put them together, and they claim to guarantee the democrats lots of votes.
Their ability to block maximum integration of blacks into US society provides a cluster of black racist thug leaders with ongoing wealth and the power to extort. Does anyone really bekieve that Jesse Jackson's son would be in Congress today if there wasn't wealth and power in black racism?
That's exactly right. The Civil Rights Act spawned the most discriminatory series of racial and gender preference laws ever seen on the books. The predominate ones created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and named age, disability and a host of other factors that places managers everywhere in impossible situations. The earlier laws were intended to fight actual cases of discrimination, but soon morphed into a requirement for proactive "inclusion". It was called Affirmative Action and placed actual quotas made up from local demographics. At least with such plans, a manager knew his/her "requirements" for hiring. But with a huge surge in federal hiring of women, minorities and the disabled, something more was needed to continue the power grab.
Diversity answered the call! Now, you no longer needed facts or numbers. And if you questioned "diversity" goals, you were obviously racist or sexist. Diversity simply means that anyone but whites are your target for hiring, promoting, and awards, without regard to the demographics.
And, as was pointed out in the lead article, it will never end. On a recent Tavis Smiley interview concerning the 40th anniversary of the MLK March and speech, he asked the question, "How far have we come since 1963"? The panel concluded that even though there are Black millionaires and even a couple of billionaires, Blacks in America today are worse off than when slavery ended!
As long as Blacks and other minorities, and women can be adorned with false victimhood, this insanity will continue. But once, people begin to realize that they are dupes and not victims, the Jacksons, Sharptons and most of the Democrat leadership will wither and die. It cannot survive on success or hope, only fear.