On Cynicism & Gullibility In America, Part I

 

Because I think so highly of Victor Davis Hanson's radical review, the Second World Wars are probably as good a place to start this, as any. Plus, it was our battle against fascism, with its inherit racism and antisemitism, that revealed the hypocritical position America’s in, now. 

   

Black soldiers came back from the war, knowing America didn't really mean anything it fought for, igniting the Civil Rights movement. This brings us to the era of Martin Luther King, Jr.. 

   

Whites tend to focus on King’s 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech, dissecting it from the man, the rest of what he said and stood for, or the hardening attitudes, held at the time, that prompted King to have to make the speech. By the time he was killed, in 1968, polling amongst whites had him in the low 30s. Hardly a devoted following.

   

Blacks tend to take a more nuanced position, because the man wasn't finished with his work when he was murdered. But whites don't seem to want to focus on anything but that speech, for instance, ignoring, dismissing, or being outright hostile to King’s call for reparations. 

   

This is an American betrayal, to blacks, who believed in the entirety of King’s dream - and the claim that white’s did, too. The question for blacks then became “What do we do with this?”

Betrayals tend to make people go crazy. If the rules don't apply to some, they don't apply to others. We're seeing how the rules haven’t applied, now, with Hunter Biden. And the fact, his father threw more blacks in prison than any other politician, really makes the point sting.

(To Be Continued)