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Entry: Toxic Liberation Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/toxic_liberation#16101 Post contents: Adrianna, You give Martin Luther King and his followers way too much credit. The Civil Rights Movement kicked off in 1955 with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The U.S. Supreme Court had struck down racial segregation in public schools the year before in the Brown decision. The controversy that followed was caused by the failure of Southern state governments to enforce federal court orders. The Supreme Court had already struck down the white primary and segregation in public accommodations in several other decisions before Brown. The American establishment decided to rid itself of Jim Crow for its own reasons. Both major political parties were committed to "civil rights reform" by 1948. Truman desegregated the military that very same year. The end of segregation was preordained before White America had ever heard of Martin Luther King. Betty (Goldstein) Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963 - a year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Her radicalism was in no way caused by an obscure black preacher from Georgia. Friedan had been a radical for decades before the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement. The common thread that runs from civil rights to feminism to abortion to gay liberation to the progressive left of 2008 is not Jim Crow. Rather, it is the inclusion of your co-ethnics in United States and their attraction to subversive political movements. Everyone in America knows what the "Christian Right" is and that it has a discernible political agenda. To identify and oppose the "Jewish Left," however, is to be branded an "anti-Semite" or something much worse and excluded from polite company. Sent at: 2009 01 08