400 Years

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