Two Activist Groups Living In the Past

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Two "progressive" movements need to stop living in the past. This is a friendly intervention.
The New Anti-Anti-Black Movement
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Dexter Thomas added his own missive via the Los Angeles Times, addressing all white people about their culpability for the "embarrassing figure" of Donald Trump with the opening salvo "White people, come get your boy."
(I'm trying to imagine the reaction if the Los Angeles Times were to publish a critique of Obama by a white writer saying, "Black people, come get your boy.")
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they point fingers and impose on their audience. Their condescension to white people is as infuriating as their neglect of fellow African-Americans.
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choosing rather to arrogate to themselves the privilege of speaking for the whole race.
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The president appointed black attorneys general, a black national security adviser, a Puerto Rican Supreme Court justice, a black director of homeland security, etc. – all members of a well-connected and cosseted coterie of racially self-aware college-educated intellectuals. The Obamas stayed in close communication with leaders of the black community during eight years of an exceptionally muscular presidency, one in which executive orders were common, resistance from the press was minimal, and opposition from Republicans was timid and self-limiting.
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A black person can be elected by popular majorities not once, but twice. We've watched the most powerful nation in the world trust an African-American in leadership, then grapple with his bad economic decisions, foreign policy disasters, and polarizing rhetoric.
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The complete absence of criticism toward the White House among the latest crop of anti-racist activists destroys their credibility. Are the agitators so simple-minded that they can't criticize a black president when race relations go south?
2. Pro-Choice Feminists
the abortion industry is not only an industry, but also a callous racket, showing scarcely less contempt toward the frightened women who get mid-term abortions than they show toward the aborted babies whose body parts are carved up and sold on grisly à la carte menus.
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The rate of unmarried mothers is inching close to half of live births and is over 70% for African-American babies. Where's the scandal?
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The shocking problems we now see arising in the lucrative fertility industry are evidence that women's greatest worry is that they will not be able to have children and may have to adopt or hire a surrogate if they want to experience motherhood. Women struggle more with the stigma of childlessness than they do with prejudice against those who raise children in poverty.
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To get large numbers of women to abort, you need organized distortion – a massive behemoth like Planned Parenthood, peddling antiquated 1950s anxieties to women who live in a twenty-first-century world where abortion is a shameful relic far past its necessity.
That is perhaps the greatest danger of being stuck in ancient history – you can get things very, very wrong.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/two_activist_groups_stuck_in_the_past.html

January 2, 2016
Two Activist Groups Stuck in the Past
By Robert Oscar Lopez