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Editorial See other Editorial Articles Title: The Ugliest Day of the Year Today began just like any other day for me. Then at 9:30, I checked the stock market and saw there was no trading. I was perplexed for a while, and then it hit me. Yes, it’s the ugliest day of the year, the day on which Americans celebrate the loss of their civil rights. Let’s leave aside Martin Luther King’s communist connections and his record of adultery, sexual perversion, and plagiarism—we should all re-read Sam Francis’s “The King Holiday and Its Meaning” every year on this day. What stinks worst about the King myth is that history knows him as the man who led the “civil rights movement.” Consider the legislation that resulted from King’s activism: the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in hiring, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, which outlawed racially segregated neighborhoods. Did this legislation make us more or less free? Did it broaden our civil rights or narrow them? Well, let’s see. It is legal for me to racially discriminate in my choice of friends. If I decide that I want all my friends to be white and even announce to the world that I racially discriminate in favor of whites when I choose my friends, that’s perfectly legal. If the government tried to restrict my right to racially discriminate in this matter and demanded that I make some black friends, I think not even the American people would be befuddled and cowardly enough to accept such tyranny. We would recognize this intrusion as an intolerable restriction of our rights. And yet if I run a business and I decide I want all my employees to be white, that is illegal. The inconsistency of the laws is manifest. How do the two cases differ in essence? Why should one be legal and the other illegal? If limiting my choice of friends is tyranny, why isn’t limiting a business owner’s choice of employees the same? The same goes for racially segregated neighborhoods. If people can choose the race of their friends, why shouldn’t a coalition of homeowners be able to choose that theirs be a white neighborhood? It is a grotesque distortion to say that King worked to broaden our rights. Rather, the result of his activism was to narrow our rights by denying us the right to racially discriminate in some circumstances. It is not merely the rights of whites that have been restricted either: blacks, and all other Americans, also cannot racially discriminate in hiring and housing. And besides, what was the real moral of the “civil rights movement”? In the end it was this: blacks are so unattractive that whites have to be forced to associate with them. If blacks had any self-respect, they would revile King, rather than adulating him. Black author Zora Neale Hurston recognized that the “civil rights movement” was an insult to her race. She wrote after the Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision, which desegregated the schools: "The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody to associate with me who does not wish me near them?" The inverted nature of the world is more palpable on this day than on any other. Once again we see the reality is the inversion of the appearance. Not only is the race of compassion and accomplishment the source of all the world’s misery, but tyranny is freedom. Like King, I look forward to the day when: We all will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” But for me, that will be the day when we free ourselves of King’s legacy forever.
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Today is the second day of the year when there's less than one year of the m-f___er Bush in the W____house.
One man's tyranny is another man's freedom. I like aptitude tests. No way will I go in on any IQ-pooling schemes with anyone, though.
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