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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 30, 2010
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ism above the education of their children and the
safety of everyone? There are many rea- sons but the trend is omi-
nous. One key factor was the creation, back in the 1960s, of a whole govern- ment-supported industry of race hustling. President Lyndon John-
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son’s “war on poverty”-- a war that we have lost, by the way-- bankrolled all kinds of local “leaders” and organizations with the taxpayers’ money, in the name of community “participation” in shaping the policies of govern- ment. These “leaders” and community activists have had every reason to hype racial resentments and to make issues “us” against “them.” One of the largely un-
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told stories of our time has been the story of how ACORN, Jesse Jackson and other community ac- tivists have been able to transfer billions of dollars from banks to their own organizations’ causes, with the aid of the federal government, exemplified by the Community Re- investment Act and its sequels. Racial anger and racial
resentments are the fuel that keeps this lucrative racket going. How sur- prised should anyone be that community activist groups have used mau- mau disruptions in banks and harassed both busi- ness and government of- ficials in their homes? Lyndon Johnson once
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said that it is not hard to do the right thing. What is hard is knowing what is right. We can give him credit for good intentions, so long as we remember what road is paved with good intentions.
Thomas Sowell is a se-
nior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Uni- versi ty, Stanford, CA 94305. His Web site is
www.tsowell.com.
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