{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The activists are worked up! There\u2019s a new civil rights movement coming! We! Will! Fight!\n\n The veneration of the civil rights...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/186850682343/", "html": "<blockquote><p>The activists are worked up! There\u2019s a new civil rights movement coming! We! Will! Fight!</p>\n\n<p>The veneration of the civil rights movement of the 1950s-60s, that makes people think that\u2019s the only and inevitable way this can play out. Let\u2019s set aside the way those gains eroded with time (same as the movement of the 1860s-70s, as Reconstruction gave way to Redemption). You know what I\u2019m reminded of? The civil rights movement of the 1910s-20s.</p>\n\n<p>You didn\u2019t hear about that one? The founding of the NAACP, Garveyism, W.E.B. DuBois, black troops returning from European service in WWI, sharecroppers moving north to work the factories, pumped up to reclaim the promise of Reconstruction. Meanwhile, a countrywide surge in leftist radicalism, and new wave of immigrants asserting their claim on America. You don\u2019t hear about it, because it didn\u2019t win. The Palmer Raids, the First Red Scare, the Red Summer of 1919, the Tulsa Riot, the founding of the Second KKK.</p>\n\n<p>Well, let them try, it won\u2019t matter because trends suggest the, aah, \u201cCoalition of the Ascendant\u201d will gain overwhelming dominance in the intermediate future, right? Yeah, white Americans noticed that back then, too. That\u2019s why they cut off immigration and started pushing eugenics.</p>\n\n<p>Not convinced things\u2019ll turn out like that this time around, but they could. Learn your history, kids, it keeps you from looking the fool.</p></blockquote>\n<a href=\"/post/104193787393/\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>, 12/2/2014<br/>"}