King’s legacy IS the instillation of a system of mandatory race consciousness and racial discrimination at the federal level which people making this argument always conveniently ignore 1/🧵
https://twitter.com/mabrumley/status/1746691523729932350
The CRA destroyed or curtailed several core constitutional rights and created a blank check for the centralization of government power
A massive bureaucracy tasked with its enforcement eventually penetrated every institution in the US both public and private 2/
A massive bureaucracy tasked with its enforcement eventually penetrated every institution in the US both public and private 2/
The most ridiculous assertion that comes up in these discussions is that the return to constitutional governance would immediately result in the return of Jim Crow laws targeting blacks 3/
The entire civil rights infrastructure was sold to the public as a temporary emergency measure which would sunset once attitudes had changed
The fact that “conservatives” treat this as a sacred institution would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic 4/
The fact that “conservatives” treat this as a sacred institution would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic 4/
The sad truth is institutional racism does exist under the CRA
Corporations hold mandatory trainings on how to be less white
Organizations offer scholarships, internships, home and business loans all marked whites need not apply 5/
Corporations hold mandatory trainings on how to be less white
Organizations offer scholarships, internships, home and business loans all marked whites need not apply 5/
All of this seems to exist under the CRA, so did affirmative action until just a few months ago and while the impact of that precedent is still playing itself out racial hiring and admissions quotas continue 6/
We can discuss the origins of wokeness but what is beyond debate is that the civil rights revolution became the primary legal and moral vehicle for its conquest and that isn’t some accident or abuse, that is simply the logical application 7/
When you leave a leviathan like that lying around it will find another purpose
Every group that has wanted to meaningfully advance its cause since the CRA has turned their cause into a civil rights cause because that is now how the law actually works 8/
Every group that has wanted to meaningfully advance its cause since the CRA has turned their cause into a civil rights cause because that is now how the law actually works 8/
The CRA is an alternative constitution that displaced the American constitution, it’s an illegal usurpation and it needs to go
Running around and scaremongering like Joe “they’re gonna put y’all back in chains” Biden doesn’t change any of that 9/9
Running around and scaremongering like Joe “they’re gonna put y’all back in chains” Biden doesn’t change any of that 9/9
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