When Mr. Robinson broke the color barrier, White America, could no longer ignore Black America. Jackie Robinson was on the front page of section most American men went to read after a long day at work, whether it was in the office, the factory or the farm. Those in positions of power were faced with the reality of discrimination.
Ensuing events, Rosa Parks, the Supreme Court's "Brown Decision", Alabama National Guard blocking a school entrance. Then the Civil Rights Acts and the voter registration drives in the south and Democrats attempts to crush it. That failure to stop desegregation caused the various civil rights organizations to become radicalized, preventing constructive dialog between the parties and creating a polarized environment for the next 30 years. The nursery for the American Left was built and the teat nurtured anti-American values.
Now we have Hurricane Katerine, a natural event, a national disaster. The American public watched as an American city was washed away, the disintegration of their society. The American media sanitized the event, refusing to show the bodies of the victims, refusing to show thugs preying upon the weak and the infirm.
It became apparent there is the choice between liberty and lawlessness. Those who treasure their freedom. Those who wish it to endure for their children and grandchildren must make it their calling, their vocation, to stand up for law, for civility. We must let out leaders know the behavior of thugs must not go unpunished. We must remove those leaders in title alone from their positions. People will not flourish under the hand of a weak ruler.
We must make our voices clear, our hands steady, are stance firm; we will not accept attacks upon our military, those who are serve in our stead to defend our liberty and protect the weakest among us.
It was a very strange situation back in the 50's. Legalized discrimination had to stop, which was a good thing, and for a while it looked like we were all going to move forward. Then came LBJ's "Great Society," which took some of the patronizing programs that were already being put in place by liberals in Northern cities (for example, dropping the requirement that residents of the projects be (a) employed and (b) married) and made them national policy.
This was the death blow to a group that was struggling. Blacks who had moved out of the Deep South were illiterate, unintelligible even to other black people, and scared. Once the government and the non-profits got ahold of them, they were dead meat. And this spread throughout almost all groups of poor urban blacks. It was the start of what is now almost 50 years and 3 generations of dependency, resentment and failure. Thank you, liberals.