But in their minds, liberals lived in a heroic past, where they were the ones manning the barricades and marching against segregation. Segregationist violence was gone, and all public places integrated. There had been a real fight over civil rights for a century, especially in the previous two decades, but by the end of the sixties, it was over. (More likely, those mantels would have portraits of Bernie Goetz.)īeginning in the seventies, there was constant racial turmoil in this country, stirred up by the media, academia and Hollywood to promote their fantasy of America as "Mississippi Burning." They seem to imagine that in African American households throughout the land you'll find mantel portraits of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy and Keith Olbermann. Liberals luxuriate in calling other people "racists" out of pure moral preening. The Democrats' slogan during the Bush years was: "Dissent is patriotic." Under Obama, it's: "Dissent is racist." Excerpted from MUGGED: RACIAL DEMAGOGUERY FROM THE SEVENTIES TO OBAMA by Ann Coulter by arrangement with Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), Inc., Copyright © Ann Coulter, 2012.Ĭhapter 1: Race Wars of Convenience, Not Necessity
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