Civil Rights Movement Put to Rest Long Ago
The unlearned eye knows that when the State celebrates anything, it is because the object of the celebration has been effectively castrated, rendered an impotent symbol to appease its illusioned subjects so that the charade might go on unabated. We've seen this practiced thousands of times before.
The State celebrates Martin Luther King only after they assassinated him and destroyed the movement under his leadership.
Andrew Jackson is honored on this country's $20 Federal Reserve Note, despite spending the major portion of his presidency fighting against the establishment of a private and national central bank. (Jefferson, too.)
Memorial Day pays tribute to our dead soldiers, an easy and less expensive option than taking care of the veterans that are living, many of whom know a bitter and unsupported life when they return to the country they sacrificed for.
The State celebrates freedom and liberty on July 4th, while dedicating the remaining 364 days of the year to repealing and circumventing the fundamental dictates of the Constitution.
The State celebrates our work force on one September Monday, while working vigorously to undermine it all the rest. Laborers can have their holiday barbecue, but the money for pensions and health benefits, not to mention new jobs, has to be taken away so that CEO's can make bigger campaign contributions to their globalist buddies and pay for all the extra private security measures to keep disgruntled workers quiet.
Returning squarely to the issue of civil rights, some might consider this unlearned assessment a bit too harsh. After all, Blacks and other minorities have made significant social progress since the 1950s. There are no more Jim Crow laws (on the books anyway) and Blacks have more economic and educational opportunity than at any other time in modern history. Furthermore, the contributions of Black culture to the American way of life, with many Blacks now role models to Whites, can only be ignored by those still feverishly caught in the zeal of racism (there may be more than we care to truthfully admit).
These are all good points, to be sure. But we also know that the suppression of Black people is still very much a reality in this country. Hurricane Katrina aside, our inner cities and many suburbs still struggle with the blight of Black poverty and insidiously administered public schools. The Black community remains the favorite target of police harassment and government orchestrated dope dealing. Naming hundreds of streets and public buildings after Black leaders can't wipe away these sins.
Even the best of Black people, those who have achieved true equality with White society on the strength of their courage, determination and convictions…what victory is that?
Welcome to the world of Whites, Mr. Black Man and Ms. Black Woman! You have earned the privilege of being just as much a slave as you ever were! The only good thing about being White is that most of us have deluded ourselves into believing that we are free. The reality is much harsher than that.
We still pray to a mythological god that doesn't exist (the one we forced your ancestors to worship many hundreds of years ago).
We still pay taxes that, constitutionally, we don't have to pay.
We still fight wars to make the rich Whites (very few in real numbers) even richer.
We still abuse women in our society whenever we can, though our women are learning to dish it out pretty good, too, these days.
And we even like to hate other Whites, especially ones that speak other languages, belong to other countries, or don't pray the way we do.
Starting to get the picture? Equating liberty with White values and White materialism is the principal error of every civil rights movement around the globe. White freedom and rights have ebbed and flowed as much as any other on this planet. What is needed here is a more powerful understanding of human freedom and the mechanisms which are in place to suppress it. One of those mechanisms is the very issue of racial equality.
This is what Martin Luther King discovered towards the height of his power. Civil rights was not an issue about color, he correctly concluded, it was an issue about the economic disparity in the world and the system that perpetuates it. When he began to rally his followers towards that knowledge and purpose, his light was quickly snuffed out and his legacy muted and marginalized, mis-preached to the generations of children that followed him. Unfortunately for most, Rosa Parks' legacy will serve as footnote to another dis-empowering illusion.
What can be salvaged from the life of Mrs. Parks is the courage she did demonstrate on that Alabama bus five decades ago. Regardless of race, nation, religion or economic status, the decision to say "no" to systemic conventions that denigrate our human dignity and freedom should always be honored, encouraged and supported. Mrs. Parks illustrated clearly that great power and influence is available to us all at a moment's notice, if only we can remove the shadows of fear that cloud our thinking, feeling, and desires.
If you look around, you will notice that there are many more opportunities where such conviction can be put to work in the world today. A police state is rapidly emerging in all parts of the globe that will make Jim Crow look like a 98 pound weakling…if we let it. We must ever guard against our power being usurped for the ends of the State, which has only shown itself to be the jailer of mankind for the remembered portion of our history. That would be a higher honor to Mrs. Parks than the empty spectacles that marked her body's return to the earth.
Whose Life are You Living?
