I am constantly amazed by everyone trying to jump on the
civil rights bandwagon.
Whether it’s the gay rights or the amnesty crowd, their’s is
a civil rights struggle in their minds.
They seem to forget that the black struggle for human
decency did not begin in the ‘60s. No, the black struggle began with the first
slave brought to the Americas. Has everyone seen the movie “Amistad”?
Runaway slaves were a constant. Every time America needed
help in its wars, the freedom carrot was dangled in front of them. Seems that
the first casualty leading to the Revolution was a black man. And when America
was fighting for its survival in the War of 1812, blacks were promised their
freedom if they fought in the war only to go back into slavery once victory was
ours.
The American Civil War saw blacks fighting on both sides. And
contrary to what Hollywood was portraying in the 50s and 60s, the West was not
won by John Wayne and a whole bunch of white guys. Had anyone heard of the buffalo
soldiers before the 90s? Or the Tuskegee airmen? And how did Uncle Sam repay
these brave men? By infecting them with syphilis.
So, when Martin Luther King took to the streets, it should
not have come as a surprise but it did. How did America respond? With dogs,
water hoses and clubs.
So, gay people and amnesty people think of what the civil
rights movement was about and the history before it.
MADD MEXX
