No doubt that there were many racial sins committed in American society during the Jim Crow era. But whatever good things the civil rights movement may have accomplished in its day, it’s fundamental purpose was to make America communist. It has not quite succeeded, but it certainly hasn’t failed. As Jeremy Carl has said, the civil rights legislation was too blunt an instrument to solve the issues it was seeking to address. And as Christopher Caldwell has pointed out, civil right ultimately replaced the older American order with a new constitution — functionally, it was a revolution.
Much of the civil rights legislation needs to be repealed and replaced with free association protections and laws that respect God’s design for human life, especially marriage/family life. Forcing integration by government coercion was never the way to go. It would have been much better to allow it to happen organically by free choice. Booker T. Washington was on the right path; MLK was a disaster.
The civil right industry has now given us hyper-feminism, wokeness, Obergefell, transgenderism, DEI, and many other perversions. It created a rolling revolution that will ultimately steamroll everything worthwhile in our civilization unless stopped. “Civil rights” is an acid that will eat through everything that matters if we allow it.
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I’ve liked all of Chad O. Jackson’s work on MLK and the civil rights movement (or what he calls the civil rights industry).
In the podcast below, he makes a great point about the rise of fatherlessness and the breakdown of the black family. He points out the liberals blame systemic racism. Conservatives blame LBJ’s Great Society and the welfare state.
Jackson leans towards the conservative explanation (as do I) but adds an important wrinkle. Both sides valorize MLK. But MLK, through his depraved personal example and by advocating socialist policies as the key to black liberation, contributed to the destruction of black family life. MLK deserves as much blame as LBJ for ruining the black family.
Jackson contrasts MLK’s statist/Marxist approach with that of Booker T. Washington’s “Cast Down Your Bucket” approach emphasizing personal responsibility. He also points to a black preacher named Joseph H. Jackson, who refused to allow blacks to use political/economic conditions as an excuse and called on men to be men. It would be hard work, not picketing, that would elevate the black race.
As Jackson points out on the podcast, the civil rights industry turned blacks from a “trying race” into a “crying race.” The civil rights movement turned blacks into functional communists, looking for handouts, rather than relying on familial responsibility and hard work.
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This podcast is also excellent. A very good discussion of all kinds of things, from slavery, the Civil War, different approaches to the black dilemma during Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, etc. The contributors really know the history very well.
I’ll mention just one highlight: The discussion on how MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech sparked a rolling revolution for justice that can never end was very insightful. MLK called for justice, but justice in MLK’s sense meant a Marxist version of equality. “We have still not arrived” became the mantra after that speech – and we haven’t arrived because we can never arrive at an impossible goal.
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