02-05-2021
“My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without legal and nonviolent pressure. History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and give up their unjust posture; but as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.” – MLK
I have been an advocate of reading for nearly a lifetime of years. The fact that we, as a society, do so little reading, explains the ignorance and misguided protests of our times as well as the endless flow of garbage we seem willing to swallow. In the passage quoted above I find an entire meal to be devoured, not merely a single point. The quote is from Martin Luther King Jr. in his letter written in 1963 while sitting in the Birmingham jail. He and his group of non-violent protesters were illegally occupying stores and seats that were designated “white only”. Thus they were arrested for breaking the law.
The first point is the most obvious. Privileged groups are recalcitrant to give up their privileges. Without pressure, they are unlikely to ever do so. This has been the fallback position of every demonstration turned riot or not. It holds water, most especially when it is a nonviolent action. And it also fits neatly inside of the Marxist philosophy.
That is the hook for Marx. A scintilla of truth.
The paragraph also mentions groups as compared to individuals and the difference between them in terms of morality. A single person is far more moral than a group. This defies the Marxist propaganda of group mentality and begs the question, “what are you objecting to?”
In the case of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, they were protesting the laws in place that created and maintained a segregated south. Blacks were denied access to bathrooms, buses, restaurants, hotels, on and on. The cause was legitimate and quite obvious. The tension inevitable. The demonstrations were meant to affect the law. In time, they had the desired effect, and slowly integration did take place and Jim Crow died a stubborn death.
For the past year we have seen demonstrations, riots, and law breaking with nothing behind it other than some vague notion of inequality. Systemic racism. But what law needs changed? Antifa only wants lawlessness. Their preference is no law at all, only to agitate and stir up any other group who might have a point to make. BLM objects to cops killing blacks but unnecessary police shooting is already a crime and it has been dealt with on a case by case basis. No one wants cops to kill arbitrarily. De-funding the police is sheer madness, but reform and reassessment can never hurt. The statistics show clearly that shootings are almost always a result of criminal activity. Of course there are “bad shoots” and bad cops, but whatever systemic problem there may be is not within the law. It is within the individuals, case by case.
Are these protests we have witnessed then an objection of one group of people against another? It would seem so. Who can argue that black lives matter, brown lives matter, all lives matter? Marx would have every possible category of people fighting every other. Destabilization is the key to overthrow. No coup can take place without it. BLM is collecting money and advertising anti-racism which is really reverse racism. A recent quote, “They are using current racism to object to historical racism.” Now there’s a strategy. Anti-racism isn’t even a word. It’s a word trap. Martin Luther King Jr. is rolling over in his grave!
No, what we saw last year was a group of well meaning, albeit confused folks, hijacked by the true insurrectionists resulting in meaningless temper tantrums gone unpunished. Yet the country is in a shambles and now the Congress is hunting down “domestic terrorists” because of the business on Jan 6th.. The Capitol demonstration was actually directed at the election laws, a very legitimate cause, and the unlawful riot is being investigated by every law enforcement organization we have. Where was the same dedication this past summer?
No one in this country wants to be called a racist. Yet all people have biased thoughts and you can hardly change humanity with a new law. Changing humanity is an act of god. Our country is filled with moral people and beset by greedy ones. Racial equality under the law has been achieved. Now it is up to us to promote moral equality in our daily lives while being mature enough to understand that life is not fair. Equal opportunity is the most we can hope for. The rest is hard work. And most Americans know this already!
So we have this brewing unrest that cannot put it’s finger on what it wants juxtaposed to a specific issue of how elections should take place while the most privileged among us are surrounded by fences, walls, and soldiers. Biden has signed 47 executive orders to date – bypassing Congress – which is clearly rule by fiat. To spell it out, this is a dictatorship. It is a puppet administration under the control of leftist, Marxist, tyrants.
“Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” Which movement do you think Martin Luther King Jr. would hang his hat on?
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Here’s my challenge:
Take a week off. Read 3 books. Animal Farm, 1984, The Communist Manifesto. If you can’t see yourself and your countrymen trapped in the pages, then the brainwashing has worked. Go back to work. Stay home. Maybe consider a lobotomy.
Otherwise, by Wednesday you’ll probably want some liquor. By Friday you will be looking for a therapist.