Ebook {Epub PDF} Those Who Would Be Free: Where the Civil Rights Movement Went Wrong by Alan Keyes

 · Alan Keyes, for example, has written that the civil-rights establishment’s portrait of Clarence Thomas -- as an ingrate who bit the hand that fed him -- reveals the posture that the. The Court went wrong here because of a wrong turn taken in our nation. We began this process immediately after passage of the Civil Rights Act, under the influence of the view that this society owed it to the descendants of its slaves to take an active, positive hand in shaping their places in life. Now, what always happens when we attempt to do that is we have Mr. Emerson and those who steadily try to attack the organization, who try to characterize and paint it as some sort of terrorist group, just as during the civil rights movement, the government tried to paint the SCLC and the civil right organizations as subversive groups, when in.

Alan Keyes offers an overview of the civil rights movement in America. He examines the words of important figures in the history of the movement and comes to the conclusion that the direction civil rights headed in towards the s diverged from what past leaders believed important. Alan Keyes on Civil Rights; Political pundits. Alan Keyes on Gay Marriage Wrong to treat sexual behavior like race In terms of civil rights discrimination, it is wrong to treat sexual orientation like race, for race is a condition beyond the individual's control. This 'destruction' began in the sixties with the 'generation of free love,' Johnson's Great Society (" I'll have those niggers voting democrat for the next years") the Civil Rights movement, drugs, and radical feminism. The original intentions were good, but the pendulum swung too far, as it always does.

In the 's, the civil rights movement sought the assistance of government to enforce the fundamental principle that all men are created equal. But today's civil rights groups have abandoned that principle in favor of preferential treatment for groups defined by race or sex. This is simply wrong. We cannot cure injustice with another injustice. This ‘destruction’ began in the sixties with the ‘generation of free love,’ Johnson’s Great Society (” I’ll have those niggers voting democrat for the next years”) the Civil Rights movement, drugs, and radical feminism. The original intentions were good, but the pendulum swung too far, as it always does. Alan Keyes, for example, has written that the civil-rights establishment’s portrait of Clarence Thomas -- as an ingrate who bit the hand that fed him -- reveals the posture that the.