St. Louis CofCC Blog

We’re quickly approaching the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Augusta Chronicle recalls that he was in Augusta in late March of 1968, right before he went to Memphis.  We find out this revelation from one of King’s local proteges:

Dr. King’s death also stopped him from carrying through on a plan that would have charted a new and highly controversial course for the civil rights movement, according to Mr. Watkins. In his book, he wrote that Dr. King shared his frustrations about the economic inequities blacks faced in America over dinner at a hotel after his speech. He then whispered to Mr. Watkins what he hoped to eventually do, something the former Augustan decided not to put in his book.

But after 40 years of secrecy, and initially saying he would probably take it to his grave, he revealed what it was: Dr. King was going to propose a separate state for blacks so they could eventually achieve economic parity that he believed wouldn’t happen on its own in America.

It’s surprising, but not shocking.  After making a career and a reputation out of lobbying white governments and people to embrace diversity, equality, integration and civil rights, his ultimate goal was black separatism.  Of course, it wouldn’t have been a genuinely separate state.  As we found out in the September 2006 issue of American Renaissance:

It is not just individuals who may not be black enough. The same standards apply in larger contexts. Most whites do not realize that many blacks have given up on integration. Blacks are incensed if they are kept out of white institutions or neighborhoods, but many view integration only as a tool for specific purposes and not as an end itself. If they can reach economic or political goals through exclusively black means, that is preferable.

Roy Brooks, who teaches at the University of San Diego Law School, makes this case in Integration or Separation? which was published by Harvard University Press. “There is nothing intrinsically good about racial mixing,” he writes. “Its appeal comes from its social utility.” He continues: “African Americans need to spend less time trying to live next to whites and employ more energy striving to live together.” One reason for this is that “[c]learly the homogeneous community rather than the larger white society is the environment in which the personal self-esteem of African Americans develops positively.” In his view, integration is an endlessly wearying struggle for blacks because they must deal with whites who can never be made to understand black reality: “[M]any African American students believe it is futile to attempt to educate white people, and they do not see the races ever living together in harmony.”

He proposes what he calls “limited separation.” Blacks must always have the right to live in the white man’s world if they want, but they should have their own schools, neighborhoods, workplaces, churches, and amusements, so that they can live completely apart from whites if that is their choice. Working-class blacks, he explains, will almost certainly choose separation.

Thanks to this revelation, we now know that Martin Luther King was an advocate of “limited separation.”  In other words, they want what white people have, and want to be able to integrate with white society, and make it illegal for whites to have anything on their own and for themselves alone, but they want to be able to have their own legal enclaves as an option.  Of course, white governments would have to pay for these “separate states,” (especially their health, welfare and education), and would be responsible for these states’ predictable failures, though the blacks that govern them would get to take credit for the fleeting successes.

Chicago Tribune:

Speaking at the annual PUSH Excel Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship breakfast Monday, comedian Bill Cosby focused on an issue that crosses racial lines: parenting.

“People don’t know how to parent, and they don’t care,” he said. “Babies are having babies.”

It’s not uncommon to find households with 15-year-old parents, grandparents in their early 30s and great-grandparents who are only 45, Cosby said at the Sheraton hotel in downtown Chicago.

Rev. Jesse Jackson put those comments into perspective, saying King finished high school at 15, graduated from Morehouse College at 19 and finished the seminary at 22.

By the time he was assassinated at 39, he had changed the world.

So, the system that MLK opposed had him as a high school graduate at 15, and a Th.D. at 22.  Because he got his way in the civil rights movement (and HRC is totally right about how it came about), his people are parents instead of high school graduates at 15, grandparents instead of college graduates in their early 30s, and great-grandparents instead of doctorates and world-changers at 45.

Joshua Widner is a 22-year old Georgia man, who was convicted of a crime due to a sexual act very similar to that of Genarlow Wilson. He was in the same state, convicted of violating the same statute, and serving the same 10-year sentence in state prison, as Mr. Wilson. Assuming that one believes that Mr. Wilson’s case is a miscarriage of justice, it is also the same capricious application of law.

Yet, there is no civil rights industry, no NAACP, and no sympathetic fawning mainstream media making a cause celebre of Mr. Widner’s plight, and certainly no comparison of his legal plight to slavery and Jim Crow, like they are doing for Mr. Wilson’s cause.

KSDK-NBC-5:

DETROIT (AP) — Julian Bond wants people to understand that when the NAACP symbolically buries the N-word on Monday, the effort will be led by the younger members of the venerable civil rights organization.

“Seven young people are on our board of directors, and they are spearheading this initiative,” said Bond, the group’s chairman. “This is the continuation of a long fight against the denigration of African-Americans in popular culture. If it’s someone black or someone white, it’s equally wrong.”

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“Images reflected in songs and music videos that show half-dressed African-American women being objectified or demeaned by men, or young African-American men as thugs must stop,” NAACP youth and college division director Stefanie L. Brown said in a news release. “These kinds of images promote hurtful and false stereotypes of young African-Americans.”

For once, we seem to be having an NAACP convention that makes not a single mention of Confederate flags. Though progress might be coming too late for the NAACP, as they recently announced budget cuts and a 40% reduction in staff.

When they will symbolically bury anti-white pejoratives, like the C-word and the H-word, remains to be seen, but hopefully they can do it before they declare bankruptcy.

More than 8,000 people are expected to attend the convention. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will speak at a dinner Tuesday, and a presidential candidates’ forum will be held Thursday. Bond said all Democratic candidates have confirmed participation.

The irony of Chertoff boarding this Titanic after it has rammed the iceberg is too much. He is the head of a Federal department called “Homeland Security,” and the NAACP is said to represent the racial minority in American whose criminality is most acutely responsible for diminishing the security that people feel in their homes and communities. In a more pedantic sense, the NAACP continues to oppose racial profiling, and the refusal to do so has in the past, and will in the future, preclude(d) law enforcement from squelching terrorist plots.