Deroy Murdock
Imagine that it’s 1964. President Lyndon Baines Johnson just signed the landmark Civil Rights Act. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrates by ordering his supporters to launch missiles from black neighborhoods into white communities. Picture the rockets’ red glare as they rise from Watts and land in Beverly Hills. Up they soar in Harlem, and down they rain on the Upper West Side. Such mayhem would have triggered a white crackdown on black areas. The squandered opportunity for greater racial equality and economic prosperity would have hobbled black progress, probably for decades. Barack Obama’s presidential victory might have been a non-starter had Dr. King taken this low road. Thank God Almighty, he did not. Read more...