ALAN writes:

A reader wrote [What the Civil Rights Act Did for Blacks, Tuesday, July 5, 2011 ] about the effects of “The Great Society” do-gooder schemes like the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 
 
Many people seem disillusioned by the realization that such do-gooder schemes did not benefit blacks all that much over the past forty years.  Of course they didn’t.  They were not intended to benefit blacks.  They were intended to benefit the Marxist, Communist, Socialist and other anti-American planners and agitators who engineered “The Great Society” and the “Civil Rights Movement.”  
 
How many of your readers know that a book entitled The Great Society was published in 1914 by a proponent of Fabian Socialism?  Or that the Fabian Socialists have been planning for more than a hundred years to make the United States into a Socialist nation?
 
To believe that the “Civil Rights Movement” was about Rights is like believing that the ACLU is a group of American patriots.  The truth is quite different:  The ACLU was founded by people whose long-range goal was to make America into a Communist nation.  “Civil liberties” was just the pretext.  The “Civil Rights Movement” was about Power and Revolution.  In both cases, most Americans – black and white alike – bought what the Socialists were selling.  
 
As early as the 1920s, Communists and Socialists were enlisting blacks into their agitprop endeavors – not because they cared about their rights or well-being, but because they intended to use the blacks to help advance their collectivist goals.  (See, e.g., Reds in America by R.E. Whitney [1924], Chapter Twelve: “The Negro Program”.)
 
The moral and cultural devastation that would flow from the 1964 Civil Rights Bill were clearly predicted two years later by Kent Steffgen in his book The Bondage of the Free  (Vanguard Books, 1966).  That bill, he wrote, “is the kind of sweeping Federal measure over which Americans once fought a revolution of freedom against the British Crown….
 
“The drastic effects of the Civil Rights Movement are beginning to appear everywhere….  Communists, liberals, and economic pressure groups have commenced the planned breakdown of social customs and are busy fostering a saturnalia of vice and self-indulgence….
 
“If Americans accept the mixed or multi-racial society, large U.S. cities may enter a period of wanton degradation and cultural dissolution without parallel since the closing and most decadent days of the Roman Empire.  For, since Rome, there has not been a better-organized plot to undermine the moral and spiritual values of a population….
 
“People will move out of the cities to escape the degradation the Communists have planned….  Ten thousand interracial themes will not beat a path to brotherhood but into the moral sewers….”   [pp. 260, v, 315-16]
 
Note carefully that these words were written 45 years ago.  Americans are now deeply immersed in those “moral sewers,” whose effluvia include teenage gangs, feral thugs, “flash-mobs,” spray-paint vandals, shootings, panhandlers, Section 8 housing, Ebonics, vulgar “entertainment”, obnoxious noise mendaciously called rap and hip-hop “music,” unprecedented rates of welfare dependency, unaccountable schools (see Atlanta), rates of divorce and illegitimacy among blacks that are higher than they were before the “Civil Rights Revolution,” astronomical rates of crime among blacks, neighborhoods ruined, the incompetence guaranteed by “affirmative action” laws, the piecemeal destruction by black predators and parasites of multi-million dollar apartment buildings in cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and St. Louis, and the ruins of Detroit. 
 
Such things are of course a disgrace to decent black Americans and all other decent Americans.  But they are a gold mine to those who want to weaken our nation and then remake it into part of a Socialist World Government.  They say so.  They have been saying so for a hundred years.  
 
The absurdly and purposely-misnamed “Civil Rights Movement” was and is just another Marxist-designed project on the Fabian Freeway to Socialism.  (See Rose L. Martin’s Fabian Freeway: High Road to Socialism in the U.S.A., 1884-1966, Heritage Foundation, 1966.)   

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Greg Jinkerson writes:

Thank you to Alan for his excellent remarks.

Anyone who is curious about the horrendous impact of the civil rights movement upon race relations in America will also find Jared Taylor’s 1992 book Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America indispensable reading. In a small section entitled, “Help Must Come From Whites,” Taylor describes several instances of civic movements in cities throughout the United States which resulted in commissions issuing reports on the condition of blacks in those cities. Describing one such report that was ordered by New York City’s mayor Ed Koch in 1985, Taylor writes that the all-black, 15-member commission findings “surprised no one. It found that blacks are a ‘community in crisis’ and that they … ‘are less educated, earn less, and have a higher rate of unemployment than whites.’ The commission asked for loan guarantees for black business, city deposits in black-owned banks, recruitment of more high-level blacks, job set-asides, community hiring halls for blacks, etc. As one black newspaper approvingly put it, the report bolstered the view that ‘many of the economic and social problems being experienced by blacks can be traced right to City Hall.’ Mayor Koch praised the report.

“As is common in reports of this kind, there was no suggestion that blacks should, or even could, get a grip on themselves. All help is to come from whites or from the government. This reflects a very common view among blacks. As one prominent polltaker reports, ‘the greatest difference between blacks and whites in polling [is that] the vast majority of blacks believe government can solve anything.’ For many blacks, government is a symbol of white America. White people could solve black people’s problems if they really wanted to. Since the government has not solved all their problems, it must not want to.  (Paved With Good Intentions by Jared Taylor, pp. 83-84, 1992 edition, Carroll & Graf.)

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