kunstler | Race relations turned very sour in
2014 with more highly publicized killings of young black men in
ambiguous circumstances. The chief martyr of the year, Michael Brown of
Ferguson, Mo., was a poor candidate for sainthood, and did not help
advance the credibility of claims that police brutality rather than the
misbehavior of young men is behind a lot of strife abroad in the land.
One gets the feeling that black race hustlers are in the driver’s seat
recklessly pushing African Americans toward open warfare with everybody
else. My view of the situation is not popular with Progressives, viz:
that black separatism and its offshoots in “diversity” politics and
multi-culturalism tragically promote an antagonistic, alienated,
oppositional black politics at the expense of a common culture for
blacks and whites with common values and common standards of behavior.
It has gotten so bad that reasonable people can sadly conclude that the
long civil rights project has ended in failure. We are treading on
dangerous ground here, with foolishly outmoded ideas about what to
expect from each other, and of course all this begs the questions: What
now? What next?
