Happy birthday, white America!

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After all, only white men landowners were freed on July 4th.
 
I don't even think most people realize that most black people in America fought for the British and not the colonials.

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I don't even think most people realize that most black people in America fought for the British and not the colonials.

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More Germans fought for the Brits than Blacks. No-one with any sense woulda given a gun to a black
 
Just this week Princeton’s Cornel West — a proud man of the Left — despaired that under Obama, “we black folk are just being pushed to the back of the bus.”

What bus are you talking about, Professor?

When Republicans tried to filibuster the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lamented, “When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today.”

That’s true! But . . . so what? How, exactly, is opposition to an ever more disastrous health-care-reform bill akin to denying the humanity of African-American citizens? Is any filibuster threat now tainted by Dixiecrat opposition to civil rights?

The Washington Post reported this week that civil-rights activists in Florida are dismayed that the George Zimmerman murder trial isn’t racially divisive enough. “It makes you feel kind of angry and kind of bad that race is not a part of this,” Reverend Harrold C. Daniels told the Post. “It’s a missed opportunity.”

The “problem,” as even the Martin family’s attorney concedes, is that there’s just not much evidence that Zimmerman was motivated by racial animus. You’d think that would be good news. But it’s not, because so many people invested in the idea that “Trayvon Martin is Emmett Till!” in the words of one demagogic radio host.

When the Supreme Court recently ruled that the Voting Rights Act needed to take into account that blacks now vote more than whites in jurisdictions that are presumed to be racist, many responded as if the Supreme Court had reinstated Jim Crow. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry cried out on Twitter, “Damn, that citizenship thing was so great for awhile.”

Slavery and Jim Crow were horrible injustices, and the civil-rights movement was a shining moral triumph. But the light of that movement shouldn’t be used to blind us to important distinctions, chief among them: We don’t live in that world anymore.
Jonah Goldberg, NRO
 
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