As the article states many civil rights groups are victims of their own success. Racism is no longer as open, obvious or egregious as it once was. That's the good news. While systemic racism is largely gone the other kind of inequity is making a real come back. Economic inequity is a real issue and it will continue to become even more so until people get over their fear of being labelled commie pinkos and work to make the playing field more level.

Trouble with that one is the fact that the lobbyists and corporate special interest groups largely run DC by proxy and write their own laws. As long as that continues to be the case, corporate welfare and special tax breaks for the wealthy will continue to dominate the game and empoverish the system as social programs and the general welfare of the populace and the crumbling infrastructure get ignored.

Eventually push will come to shove.

The powers that be know this and are working at increasing their ability to spy on and control the citizenry more than ever.

Meanwhile, old-brand civil rights groups are in decline but other newer groups, less hidebound and trapped in time, are emerging to fit the needs of todays challenges and the ACLU still has a considerable membership commited to the ideals the nation was founded on so it's not a completely dire picture.

Be Well.

When the best you can come up with is "Don Imus was mean to a couple of girls," maybe its the right time for it to end...

I'm sorry, Don Imus wasn't all... there was the whole, "Let's get those 6 thugs who kicked the shit out of one guy out of jail, because they're Black and we're Black." Yeah... real sorry to hear your "career" is ending Al and Jesse...

Yes, very sad that the Democrats main reason for existence (identity politics) may be running out of steam.
Although the current battle royale between feminism and racialism counters that view.
As long as the Democrats can continue to cast the heterosexual white male into the role of Der Juden, I am sure they will do fine.
What would the Democrats do if they couldn't portray the world as a struggle between oppressor (white males) and victims (anyone else)?
We all know that when they say "Dead white males" that they wished every white male was dead. Why else would they get so gleeful every time an American dies in Iraq?
Marxism at its finest. It is like some Doomsday machine from an old Star Trek episode. The Soviet Union may be gone, but the ideas and hatred of Western Civilization it fostered and the Left adopted keep marching along.

Is your hate politically correct hate?
Do you believe that racism is wrong unless you hate white people?
Do you believe that sexism is wrong unless you hate men?
Do you believe that sexual discrimination is wrong unless you hate heterosexuals?
Do you believe that religious intolerance is wrong unless you hate Christians?
Do you believe that freedom of speech involves censoring offensive non-Politically Correct speech?
Do you believe that DoubleThink is hard and that DoubleThink is easy?
Do you keep such an open mind that your brain fell out?
Are you a hypocrite and a bigot? Do your friends praise you for it and call you morally superior? Do you think that your bigotry makes you a better person than others?

If your hate is politically correct hate then Democrats are the party for you.

What civil rights are there that are being denied?

1. The right to organize into gangs?
2. The right to lead the league in felonies?
3. The right to place first in bastard children?
4. The right to sell dope in EVERY black neighborhood?
5. The right to pimp prostitutes in EVERY black neighborhood?
6. The right to BLAME WHITE DEVILS for all of life's woes?
7. The right to own 'victim status'?

Thanks to like likes of Jackson, Sharpton, Spud,...
these 'rights' are yours for the taking.

The civil rights racketeers new angle:

REPARATION($)

Civil rights has yet to be asserted in a meaningful way in this country. Nonetheless, I assert that there are a multitude of opportunities that exist in this country and it is necessary to pro-actively secure them.

Yes, very sad that the Democrats main reason for existence (identity politics) may be running out of steam.

Posted by EvilDave at 2008-04-05 07:21 PM | Reply |

All right Dave. You are spoiling the pity party. You know libs are never happy unless they are whining and bitching about something.

Sounds like Rob is the perfect whitey to weep that blacks get everything these days. Rob, the ideal medical mate ... herm

Civil rights has made great strides everywhere except the Republiklan Party, who's only black candidate is Keyesclown.

As long as one party can run on "whites only" and Reagan's "southern strategy" (the niggers are coming after the white wimmen!), there's still work to do.

The Republican's have more blacks in high offices of the WH administration than any other WH in history.
The only black SC justice is Republican.
Republicans have many strong black candidates at Congress-level (senate & house) over the last few election cycles

Of course, the problem is once blacks leave the Democrat party they cease to become black. And, the MSM refuses to report (positively) on them.
Look at Rice, as soon as she worked for a Rep admin it became acceptable to draw cartoons of her, in national newspapers, as a big lipped spear chucker (yes she had the spear in her hand).
And as for "here comes the raping black man" slander, the last time that was used was by the Dems against Thomas.

The facts are these:
Democrats were strongly against the Civil War.
Democrats were strongly against freeing the black slaves.
Republicans ended slavery in the US.
Republican congresses passed the 1950s/60s civil rights laws.
Affirmative Action (a.k.a. positive discrimination, the keystone of Democrat's social programs) has ruined any achievements made by individual blacks because you are never sure if someone rose to their position in the organization based on merit or preferences.
I have heard the word "nigger" far far more often uttered by Democrats than Republicans.

Under Democrat administrations national & locally, black drug use, jail time, and illegitimacy (all chronic poverty factors) have increased. The Democrats "Great Society" turned out to be a "Great (Racist) Society".

Democrats are vile bigoted people.
They see everything through the prism of race.

Democrats feel that they own black people and when a member of the black community up and leaves the Democrat's plantation, Democrats become threated and start referring to that person as a "house nigger".
Every time a black votes Democrat they are picking cotton for their masters.

Democrats glory in their soft racism and feel that they are better because of it.
The Democrats literally believe that it is their "white man's burden" to give and give to the poor "victim class".
They de-humanize and infantilize blacks by never allowing them to accomplish things for themselves.

"Democrats were strongly against the Civil War.
Democrats were strongly against freeing the black slaves.
Republicans ended slavery in the US.
Republican congresses passed the 1950s/60s civil rights laws."

So? That partisan piece of bloviating may be technically correct but so what? Who cares about party labels describing party compositions 50, 150 or more years ago?

It was the Left that fought slavery and fought for civil rights laws against the Right.

So? That partisan piece of bloviating may be technically correct but so what? Who cares about party labels describing party compositions 50, 150 or more years ago?

It was the Left that fought slavery and fought for civil rights laws against the Right.

Posted by nullifidian at 2008-04-05 11:28 PM | Reply

You're right, the parties of today do not match those of 50-150 years ago...

But you fail to make a compelling(or any, for that matter) argument against EVILDAVE's position on the modern day Dems...

Modern day Dems, 19th century Dems, again; who cares?

Modern day Dems, 19th century Dems, again; who cares?

Posted by nullifidian at 2008-04-05 11:52 PM

I guess you really can't argue against that.

"either struggling to stay relevant or struggling to stay alive."

I think that about says it all and it's good to see that they recognize their state of affairs.

Job done well, but shouldn't be overdone, just see that your job was done well.

It was the Left that fought slavery and fought for civil rights laws against the Right.

The left and democrats are holding my race in a state of virtual slavery. If you keep giving or offering handouts, blacks will never be free to think and act on our own.

The left and democrats are holding my race in a state of virtual slavery. If you keep giving or offering handouts, blacks will never be free to think and act on our own.

Posted by boaz

The left thrives on pitting one group against the other and everyone is a victim.

All people have to get off of their dead asses and try to make something of themselves. Living on pitty and handouts is not a life.

"The left and democrats are holding my race in a state of virtual slavery."

It must take a lot of koolaide and tinfoil to accuse the Democrats of what the Republicans have admitted:

"Republicans...(tried) to benefit politically from racial polarization...we were wrong...."
---Ken Mehlman, then the head of the RNC.

www.usatoday.com

Posted by Danforth at 2008-04-06 10:43 AM

Seriously, you're gonna use a rare example of a politician, who just happens to be Republican, being honest and trying to take responsibility to try and make an argument for the Democrats.

That's funny.

Just because there hasn't been a Democrat honest(or stupid) enough to admit that they take full advantage of racial polarization, doesn't mean that it isn't part of the Democrats' playbook.

In fact, I'd say it's one of the main reason that dishonest band of theives is still around.

"The left and democrats are holding my race in a state of virtual slavery. If you keep giving or offering handouts, blacks will never be free to think and act on our own."

You sound like Ken Hamblen, "The Black Avenger." Have you ever heard him or read his book?

"Denunciation of black conservatives has become more shrill - and increasingly bitter - as their numbers have grown and they have acquired a voice. Twenty years ago, Thomas Sowell was about the only name people could conjure when asked to name a prominent black conservative. Now their numbers include columnist and George Mason University economics professor Walter Williams and California's San Jose State University English professor Shelby Steele, author of The Content of Our Character.

They also include radio talk-show hosts such as Armstrong Williams, author of 1995's Letters to a Young Victim, and Ken Hamblen of Denver, whose book, Pick a Better Country: An Unassuming Colored Guy Speaks His Mind About America, appeared late in 1996."

Posted by Danforth at 2008-04-06 10:43 AM

It must take a lot of koolaide and tinfoil to accuse the Democrats of what the Republicans have admitted:

"Republicans...(tried) to benefit politically from racial polarization...we were wrong...."
---Ken Mehlman, then the head of the RNC.

"Danforth. As a lefty you are in thrall to "racial" politics. Without encouraging racism and racial politics, you folks may be a minority party for decades."

So true, but who ya' gonna get to believe it...?


"Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson's biographer Robert Caro stated: Prior to 1957 LBJ "had never supported civil rights legislation". His appointment of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court was praised, but Wynton Hall (Hoover Institute/Stanford) corrected the story: presidential historian Robert Dallek recounts, LBJ explained his decision to a staff member by saying "Son, when I want to appoint a n----r to the court, I want everybody to know he's a n----r."

LBJ allowed the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but had to get it passed through opposing Democrats. Democrats, including Senator Robert Byrd, tried to kill the Act with a filibuster. Relatively unknown Republican Everett Dirksen managed to rouse up Congress to defeat the Democrat-led filibuster. History buffs should remember that Republicans were also responsible for passing the Klu Klux Klan Act of 1871, the Reconstruction Acts, and the 1866, 1875, 1957, and 1960 Civil Rights Acts.

So many Democrats point to the racism of Jesse Helms, Richard Nixon, and other Republicans as reasons to reject the party. But why don't they talk about the racism of George Wallace, Malcolm X, and Spike Lee? Interesting that almost all of these people are dead and gone, but Blacks continuously think of Republicans as the party of bigotry."
Kevin Roeten; "History of the Democratic Party and the Black Vote"

"Democrats are the political beneficiaries of racial polarization;"

Only because the Rs turned their backs. Mehlman admitted it. It takes a lot of tinfoil to deny it at this point.

"The sad fact is that the Democrats have mesmerized blacks into mindless acceptance of Democratic ideology"

No, that's the pretend fact. The sad fact is after Rs used blacks, they had no where else to turn.

"Without encouraging racism and racial politics, you folks may be a minority party for decades."

Whereas even with encouraging racism and racial politics, you folks may be a minority party for decades.

How easily you deny reality!!

"So many Democrats point to the racism of Jesse Helms, Richard Nixon, and other Republicans as reasons to reject the party."