Civil Rights

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has resulted in a planned division in the US voter base.  Democrats seized on victim-advocacy politics and developed voter blocks out of isolated groups. Land mines were planted to ensure a stealthy increase in immigrants to round-out the Democrat collection of minorities and gays.

The problem with anti-discrimination laws is that they grow to favor the minorities way beyond what is reasonable.  For a while, the majority will go along with the scheme until it gets out of control and begins to crowd out our inalienable rights to free speech, religious freedom and protection of property.

The Civil rights act opened up jobs to blacks, but that could have been done with phone calls to CEOs. Instead it became a political act.  In business, we dealt with anti- discrimination policies.

The only issues we saw for decades were discrimination cases where 90% were baseless. Later in the 1980s, when Affirmative Action Plans were required, we dealt with these. But now they are telling us to give increases to women and minorities regardless of their backgrounds.

The 2008 Meltdown was the poster-child of anti-discrimination laws gone wild. The notion that banks should be forced to lend to “unqualified buyers” was outrageous.

Now we see family bakeries closed and fined because they refused gay customers. Again, this is another incident where citizen abuse is obvious. Gays can start their own bakeries.

We see churches under threat of lawsuits for not hiring gays and not removing warnings that homosexuality is a sin from their bibles. Gays can start their own churches.

We see HUD usurping local zoning laws to endanger property values and schools. We see Obama migrating Muslim refugees to the US with the same effect.

We also see local officials caving in to whatever Muslims want for fear of losing a lawsuit. Muslims have been open to admit that they are using our anti-discrimination laws against us.  Muslims could forsake Sharia law to live under US law, but they don’t.

We see Canada and other countries passing “hate speech” laws that carry fines and jail time for those who criticize gays or Muslims.

I would like to see the gains we made by removing segregation laws be continued, but I would like for Blacks and all other citizens to free to be themselves and pursue their own interests without interference. I continue to be impressed with graduates of Morehouse and Spellman colleges and would like to see an expansion of this model in high schools.

It is time to consider how much trouble our anti-discrimination laws are causing and whether or not they should be repealed. The US was founded to be a meritocracy and the Trump election signals that US voters would like to return to this path.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader