Civil Rights
Return to Common Sense
July 23, 2019
Section: Culture
– Civil Rights
“Race has no basis
in physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, genetics, or any other branch
of science; only a single category with a single subspecies Homo sapiens, the only race on earth for at least 30,000 years.’”
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” Thomas Jefferson.
Philosophy
(Background, Issues, Objectives):
One of America’s founding principles is
on every coin: E Pluribus Unum - Out
of many, we’re one.
- We may
have come from many places and be of different races and ethnic origins,
but if we are Americans, our differences have always paled in comparison
to what unites us.
- America has been the great melting pot for all citizens willing to
preserve our freedoms, justice and opportunities.
Civil rights legislation was passed
to overcome institutional racism.
- Declaration of
Independence “…All Men are created equal…” applied
initially to free men only.
- Constitution,
Amendment XII abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
- Constitution,
Amendment XV guaranteed the right to vote, not denied or abridged on
account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- Constitution,
Amendment XXIV guaranteed the right to vote, not denied or abridged by
reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
In 1963 Martin Luther King said “I have a dream that my four children will
one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their
skin but by the content of their character.”
Slavery has existed since the dawn of
time.
- Every culture,
every race, every creed has been guilty of slavery.
- Chattel
slavery, ownership of another person, has existed
since the dawn of civilization.
o
Romans made slaves of conquered civilizations and
treated them as property with no voting rights, used them for sexual
exploitation, and even executed.
o
Arabs introduced slavery into Africa as part of
Indian Ocean slave trade from 650AD to 1900.
o
1 million Europeans were enslaved including 700
Americans in Barbary conflict for manual labor, and females sold as concubines.
o
When England and U.S. outlawed slavery the Arab
slave trade actually increased.
- Juneteenth is a manufactured “independence day for African-American
slaves.”
- Debt
slavery involves one being forced to work for another
in order to pay a debt or other obligation.
- Modern
slavery still takes the form of both chattel and debt.
o
16 million are in forced labor.
o
15 million are in forced marriages.
o
5 million are in forced sexual exploitation.
o
4 million suffer from state-sponsored forced labor
camps.
o
1 million girls are victims of sex trafficking.
Objective measures of racial progress
show vast improvement and much has been achieved.
- Treating blacks
as a single race is misleading, since middle class blacks have different
values form poor blacks.
o
Blacks who immigrate to America are more successful
than blacks born in the U.S.
o
Values diverge based on income, education, and
ability to overcome racial discrimination.
- Blacks have shown quantifiable measures of progress over the last
40 years:
o
In 2007 88% of blacks reported being “very
satisfied” or “somewhat satisfied” with their lives.
§
The greater percentage of blacks
live either middle-class or better lives.
§
The majority of blacks live in integrated
neighborhoods (with at least 10% of neighbors belonging to "other
races").
§
Black-white marriage has soared
— after anti-miscegenation laws were struck down by the Supreme
Court in 1967 — from 65,000 in 1970 to 422,000 in 2005.
§
20.5% of blacks lacked health insurance in 2006, as
compared to 15.8% of total population.
o
If
black Americans' gross domestic product were measured separately, it would be
the 16th-richest country in the world.
§
The
employment rate for married black men equals that for married white men.
§
The
average black woman with a college degree makes more money than the average
white woman with a college degree.
§
The
highest percentage of blacks in U.S. history (46%) own
their homes.
§
Percentage
of blacks with income below poverty has dropped from 87% in 1940 to 42% in 1966
to less than 25% in 2006.
§
Nearly
80% of blacks live above the poverty level vs. 65% 40 years ago.
§
Median
household income has increased from $23.5k in 1968 to $26.5k in 1986 to 32k in
2006.
o
Meanwhile blacks have achieved the highest levels
in government, business, and sports
§
A
black man served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
§
A
black man served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
§
Two
blacks have served as members of the United States Supreme Court.
§
The
predominately white American Medical Association elected a black physician as
leader.
§
The
American Bar Association elected a black president.
§
The
Ford Foundation, one of America's largest philanthropic private foundations,
with 2007 assets valued at $13.7 billion, was led for 12 years by a black man.
§
Blacks
hold or have held CEO positions at major companies such as Merrill Lynch,
American Express and Time Warner.
§
Black-owned
businesses grow at a rate faster than white-owned businesses.
§
The
multiracial Tiger Woods is the world's most famous and wealthiest athlete in
earnings and product endorsements.
§
Major
League Baseball is made up of 40% black, Latino and Asian players.
§
The
Super Bowl, the most-watched sporting event in America, recently featured two
teams headed by black coaches.
§
Black
women have won the Miss America beauty pageant.
§
Black
economist and best-selling author Thomas Sowell, based on the number of
newspapers that carry his column, is one of the country's top 10 columnists.
§
"The
Cosby Show," a positive, upbeat sitcom about a black, upper-middle-class
family, reigned for years as America's most-watched television program.
§
Black
faces on television abound — in commercials, as local and national news
anchors, and in shows playing a variety of characters — from doctors and
lawyers up to and including the president of the United States.
§
Will
Smith, a black actor, tops the list of the nation's movie box-office stars.
§
Black
actor Samuel L. Jackson appeared in more movies than any other actor of any
color during the 1990s.
§
Black
television host Oprah Winfrey, arguably one of the most powerful television
personalities in the history of the medium, has amassed, to date, a fortune
estimated at $2.5 billion.
§
Blacks
serve or have served as mayors in many U.S. cities, including the three largest
— New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
§
The
current speaker of the California Assembly is the first black woman to head a
statewide legislative body.
§
Blacks
make up 10% of the House of Representatives, including some from primarily
white Southern districts.
§
A
black man chairs the powerful House Ways and Means Committee
.
§
A
black man served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
§
Virginia,
one of the states of the original Confederacy, elected a black man governor.
§
The
Republican Party, in the last election cycle, nominated blacks as candidates
for governor of Ohio, governor of Pennsylvania and senator from Maryland.
§
Blacks
have served the current administration as back-to-back secretaries of state.
§
Los
Angeles, devastated by the Watts riots in 1965, with a
population 11% black, hired back-to-back black police chiefs.
Preferences / quotas / affirmative
action institutionalize reverse discrimination.
- President John
F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961 signed Executive Order 10925 which
created Affirmative action.
o
Government employers may "not discriminate against any employee or
applicant for employment because of race, creed, color, or national origin"
and "take affirmative action to
ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during
employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."
- There are
multiple misconceptions about America and slavery.
o
Slavery was an ancient and universal institution,
not a distinctly American innovation.
o
Slavery existed only briefly, and in limited
locales, in the history of the Republic – involving only a tiny
percentage of the ancestors of today’s Americans.
o
Though brutal, slavery wasn’t genocidal; live
slaves were valuable but dead captives brought no profit.
o
It’s not true that the U.S. became a wealthy
nation through the abuse of slave labor: the most prosperous states in the
country were those that first freed their slaves.
o
While America deserves no unique blame for the
existence of slavery, the United States merits special credit for its rapid
abolition.
o
There is no reason to believe that today’s
African-Americans would be better off if their ancestors had remained behind in
Africa.
- The federal government continues to use “affirmative action” quotas to address perceived
discrimination.
o
Gerrymandering enforced judicially mandated districts
formed to guarantee minority representation.
o
A 2011 Congressional Research Service (CRS) survey
of federal affirmative-action policies uncovered 12 government-wide and 264 agency-specific
statutes that require or encourage such preferences; the grand total of 276.
o
Affirmative action operates on a presumption of
collective grievance.
o
Racial preferences admit lower qualified
applicant’s entry.
o
Once accepted, those with lower qualifications have
lower probability of finishing / prospering.
o
People succeed because they are skilled and driven,
not because they have Harvard degrees.
- Black students admitted to universities above their skill level
often do poorly, fail to graduate.
o
Almost all black students are admitted to law
school with drastically lower college and LSAT grades than their white and
Asian students.
§ At
elite law schools 51% of black students had first-year grades that put them in
the bottom 10% of their class, and two-thirds are in the bottom fifth as
opposed to 7% white students.
§ At
elite law schools black students had a higher failing and dropout rate, 19%
compared to 8% for white students.
§ Blacks
are four times as likely to fail the bar exam on the first try compared with
78% of whites.
§ Even
after multiple attempts, only 57% of blacks succeeded in passing the bar.
o
A Duke study found that admitting
aspiring minority scientists to schools where they are less prepared than their
peers is counterproductive.
§
Duke admits black students with
SAT scores on average over one standard deviation below those of whites and
Asians.
§
Not surprisingly, blacks’
grades in their first semester are significantly lower than those of other
ethnic groups, but by senior year, the difference between black and white
students’ grades has shrunk almost 50%.
§
Blacks improve their GPAs because
they switch disproportionately out of more demanding science and economics
majors into the humanities and soft social sciences, which grade much more
liberally and require less work.
§
Of incoming students who reported
a major, more than 76% of black male freshmen at Duke intended to major in the
hard sciences or economics, higher even than the percentage of white male
freshmen who anticipated such majors.
§
More than half of those would-be
black science majors switched track in the course of their studies, while less
than 8% of white males did, so that by senior year, only 35% of black males
graduated with a science or economics degree, while more than 63% of white
males did.
- Race based
preferences have been banned in California, Washington, Michigan, and
Nebraska.
- Institutionalizing
affirmative action preferences in India pits every group with any
grievance, real or imagined, against each other.
o
India's
founders constitutionally banning “untouchability”
in 1950 and guaranteed equal treatment under the law for everyone regardless of
caste, sex, religion or race.
o
They
created a list or "schedule" of all the dalit
sub-castes deserving preferential treatment and handed them a percentage of the
seats in the parliament and state legislatures.
o
They
also gave them a fixed percentage of all public-sector jobs and guaranteed
spots in public or publicly funded universities.
o
The
scheme was supposed to last 10 years, but instead it assumed a life of its own,
making scheduled-caste status a bigger driver of success than individual merit..
o
Quotas
have become a fact of life in India because they are the major currency with
which Indian politicians buy votes.
·
“Disparate impact” is the
favored but dubious legal theory that asserts discrimination purely on the
results, with no proof of any intent of discrimination.
o
The only thing the “disparate
impact” logic proves is correlation, not causation.
·
Affirmative action replaced old
injustices with new ones; it divides rather than unites it.
Despite evidence to the contrary,
diversity asserts that a racial mix improves environment.
- College
diversity programs fail to raise standards.
- College faculty
diversity failed to support need for same-sex, same-diversity role models.
- Businesses have found “diversity” doesn’t
increase revenue or forestall diversity lawsuits.
o
Corporate diversity training sells guilt and
stereotypes to unsuspecting employees.
- Reality is that
political correctness has stifled discussion for fear of being labeled
“racist.”
- Ethnic diversity has been found to cause a lot of problems.
o
Ethnic diversity reduces interpersonal trust, civic
engagement, and charitable giving.
o
Ethnic diversity causes us to disengage from
society, like turtles shrinking into their shells, reducing our overall quality
of life.
o
The more diversity we experience in our lives, the
less happy we are.
After a half-century of racial
preferences, the entire victim industry has become obsolete, as illiberal as it
is counterproductive.
- Who is a
minority?
- Who was
victimized?
- Who needs help?
- Who must be
diverse?
- Who can control
us all?
- In 2010, a
record 10% of opposite-sex couples lived in an interracial household.
Blacks traditionally vote Democrat
despite a political history undermining the Civil Rights agenda.
- Republican party formed in 1854 to stop Democrat pro-slavery
agenda.
- Democrat party
fought slavery abolition and Civil Rights legislation with filibusters and
votes.
- Republican
Presidents and congressmen led the passage of Civil Rights legislation.
- Republicans
founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- Democrat party
led Great Society has undermined the black family and economic future.
- Democrat party
opposed programs that directly improve black conditions (welfare reform,
marriage, school vouchers, etc.)
- Democrat party
accused successful, conservative Blacks of selling out.
- Democrat party
excused biased words and actions by allies, but not any Republicans.
- Republican party promoted more blacks into national leadership
positions.
The National Black Republicans
Association (NBRA) has researched political parties and civil rights actions:
- Every civil rights law, beginning in the
1860s through the 1950s and 1960s, was fought against by Democrats.
- Jim Crow era in the South was dominated by
Democrats.
- Klu Klux Klan became a
military force serving the interests of the Democrat Party.
- Condi Rice was the first female black
Secretary of State.
African Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North,
which began during WWI.
- African-Americans created urban ghettoes in
the large cities of the north.
- In 1920 19 of the twenty largest cities
were all located in the North and were from 92.5% to 99% white.
- By 1990 these cities were from 26 to 76%
black.
- By the 2010 Census the cities with the
highest black populations were Detroit, MI, which was 83% black, and Newark, NJ which was 52%.
- The destinations of
job-seeking African-American migrants were controlled by Democrats, it is
overwhelmingly clear that these great pockets of urban poverty were
created and maintained by that one political party.
- Tragically all of these cities have very
high rates of segregation, poor education for African-Americans.; high
unemployment, single motherhood, and crime.
The ten biggest problems facing African
Americans today, ranked in order of despair caused:
- Lack of
opportunity and safety (loss of urban jobs and failure to control crime).
- Breakdown of the
family (government dependency more attractive than husbands).
- Black
anti-intellectualism (succeeding academically is branded ‘acting white’).
- Failure of urban K-12 schools (only 30-40% of black males
graduate).
- High incarceration rate of black men (nearly 80% of violent crime
against blacks).
o
Blacks commit 90% of the 1.7 million interracial
crimes of violence in the U.S.
o
Blacks are more than 50 times more likely to commit
violent crime against whites than the other way around.
o
56% of violent crimes committed by blacks have
white victims.
o
94% of black murder victims are killed by other
blacks.
o
Black men commit 15,000 rapes of white women every
year in the U.S.
- Reduced respect for human life (nearly 30% of all abortions).
- Licensing
requirements (barriers to labor intensive entrepreneurial opportunities).
- Victimology (ongoing and collective victimization of a
group).
- Radical
relativism (lack of criticism of any obscene behavior).
- Excessive
race-consciousness (insincere acknowledgement of any advancement in race
relations).
Civil rights have degenerated into a
victim based business.
- Congressional
Black Caucus has become cabal of ultra-liberal legislators.
- NAACP, founded
in 1910 by two WASPs and a Jew, has degenerated into a rote platform for
left wing politics rather than black issues.
- National Urban
League has morphed from a black advocacy group into a government
dependency movement.
- The perception
of racism has been used as an extortion threat against major international
companies.
- Civil rights
culture double standard forgives words and actions based on race,
religion, or preferences.
- Collapse of
nuclear family has produced a culture of single-parent families.
o
Entrenched, multi-generational poverty is largely
black.
o
There is an out-of-wedlock teen-pregnancy epidemic.
- Jackson, Sharpton, Bond, Farrakhan, etc. have made a living
fanning the perception of racism.
Slavery reparations have come up repeatedly
since the Civil War and Emancipation with little chance of success.
- All the major
black organizations have supported this idea, including NAACP, the Urban
League, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
- Legally the case
for this payment is not promising.
o
Jurisprudential tradition disapproves of attaching
liability to actions that were lawful or required by law when they
happened.
o
Lack of a reasonably direct and
“particularized” link between the misconduct of a specific
defendant and the injury suffered by a specific plaintiff.
o
Statutes of limitation would dispose of most of the
claims.
o
Sovereign immunity, which generally provides that one can sue governments for cash damages only with their
consent.
- There are distinct
problems with paying reparations to descendants of former slaves:
o
The
first slaves were brought to the United States from Africa by the Dutch in
1619, 157 years before the Declaration of Independence was written.
o
Africans
themselves sold people from tribes they conquered in battle into slavery.
o
The
first recorded slave owner in the United States was a black man.
o
There
is no person alive in America today who was either a slave or a slave owner
during the period of American slavery.
- Any Implementation of
reparations would have to answer these questions:
o
Who would receive payments?
o
Who would pay?
o
How would funds be collected and distributed?
o
Who would control and administer the funds collected?
o
Who would make the decisions about who pays into the fund and who
receives payment from the fund?
o
What would happen to Americans now living in racial harmony?
Hispanic Americans are experiencing the
same family erosions similar to African Americans.
·
More than half of all young Hispanic children in
families headed by a single mother are living below the poverty line.
·
Half of all Hispanic children are born out of
wedlock.
Culture may be the root cause
explaining the disparity of outcomes between groups.
- Anomalies arise
when examining racial data.
o
Among college graduates, black women earn slightly
more money than white women did.
o
U.S. Census data show black college-educated
couples out-earned their white counterparts.
- African-Americans
(blacks descended from American slaves)
perform worse than recent African immigrants.
o
Despite
being subjected to the same racist treatment by local whites, second-generation
West Indian black families were highly successful, out-earning American black
families by 58%, and even out-earning the national average income by 15%.
o
Though
only 8% of the U.S. black population in the 2010 census, 41% of
African Americans attending Ivy League schools were of immigrant origin in
1999.
- Although not conclusive,
the role of systemic bias as a causal factor in the creation of unequal
outcomes has been greatly exaggerated.
Principles:
There are essentially but four
definitions or models of "racism":
- Racism as "Racial Hatred"
- Racism as "Racial Discrimination"
- Racism as "Doctrine of Innate Inferiority"
- Racism as "Institutional Racism.
Racial equality has basically been achieved,
and any exceptions should be prosecuted.
- Discrimination
in all its variations is an abomination, and must be prosecuted.
- Refuse to be a
victim, take responsibility for your own behavior and success.
- Stop looking for
excuses and others to blame.
Assimilate minorities into American
society as soon as possible so they can become contributing citizens:
- Speak English.
- Respect other
racial and ethnic groups.
- Do not ask for
special preferences for your own racial and ethnic group.
- Do not bear
historical grudges.
- Do not attack
working and studying hard as “acting white”.
- Do not have
children out of wedlock.
- Follow the law.
- Be reasonably
polite to one another.
- Respect women.
- Be patriotic,
proud Americans.
Recommendations:
Abandon the three pronged model of preferences,
entitlements, and group rights:
- Abandon diversity as a government goal replacing with meritocracy.
- Repeal all affirmative action programs as no longer required.
o
Redraw House districts to reflect common areas, not
common racial make-up.
o
Eliminate all racial classifications not justified
by a compelling government interest.
- Vigorously
enforce existing civil rights laws with all resources at our disposal.
Endorse cultural personal
responsibilities as part of the civil rights solution.
- Choose American,
not a separate identity, like African-American.
- Master the
English language.
- Get married
before baby arrives.
- Remain married
and raise your children.
- Push educational
achievement without excuses.
- Don’t use
drugs or abuse alcohol.
Repeal President Clinton’s 2000 Executive Order #13175 establishing Native-American tribal governments as a “fourth-level” of government equal
with state and local governments.
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