Let’s just say that a vast group of young black males are THUGS like Trayvon.
Until the Black Community makes some attempt and achieves some success cleaning that up, I will listen to nothing they have to say.
If they admit that their people are violent racists, they lose the ‘moral superiority’ that they have enjoyed for years.
Maybe a better moral claim (assuming whatever moral calculus the articles author uses), but if we keep going down the path we are on, the Bilbos, Faubuses and Wallaces will have been proven right.
The logic of the moral claim of King and Abernathy has been rejected by Obama and Jarrett. It's payback time according to Obama and Jarrett, judged according to the color of your skin and not according to your character.
If these black leaders, Sharpton, Jackson, etc. ever had the moral high ground, they sold it for 30 pieces of silver.
No it is not. Especially when he is celebrated and touted for the claim 'content of character' is important.
The black and hemi-black leadership has lead the country into racism and black racist violence, and away from an epoch of national reconciliation.
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The high moral authority of the MOVEMENT gave it its power. Its leaders later turned out to be a bunch of philanderers and satyrs.
But the point of the article -- that the moral high ground of the early civil rights era has been squandered by two-bit hustlers like Sharpton, Jackson, et. al. -- is valid.
King made his point with whites who could not conscientiously deny that their prejudices were un-Christian. But the Master Baiters rely on compelled guilt, and distort the truth to create prejudices where either there are none or where they are perfectly justified.
And that is why there is no strength left in the racial civil rights movement today.
By the way, the same is true of the so-called "women's movement." It has become nothing more than a marxist front and an engine to steamroll for abortion. It couldn't care less about women and has no high ground whatsoever remaining after its silence over the Clinton predations.
The author does not mention the appalling level of Black-on-Black violence that has existed since at least 1900.