Not only is the race of compassion and accomplishment the source of all the world’s misery, but tyranny is freedom.
21 Jan. 2008
Today began just like any other day for me. Then at 9:30, I checked the stock market and saw there was no trading. I was perplexed for a while, and then it hit me. Yes, it’s the ugliest day of the year, the day on which Americans celebrate the loss of their civil rights.
Let’s leave aside Martin Luther King’s communist connections and his record of adultery, sexual perversion, and plagiarism—we should all re-read Sam Francis’s “The King Holiday and Its Meaning” every year on this day. What stinks worst about the King myth is that history knows him as the man who led the “civil rights movement.”
Consider the legislation that resulted from King’s activism: the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in hiring, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act, which outlawed racially segregated neighborhoods. Did this legislation make us more or less free? Did it broaden our civil rights or narrow them?
Well, let’s see. It is legal for me to racially discriminate in my choice of friends. If I decide that I want all my friends to be white and even announce to the world that I racially discriminate in favor of whites when I choose my friends, that’s perfectly legal. If the government tried to restrict my right to racially discriminate in this matter and demanded that I make some black friends, I think not even the American people would be befuddled and cowardly enough to accept such tyranny. We would recognize this intrusion as an intolerable restriction of our rights.
And yet if I run a business and I decide I want all my employees to be white, that is illegal.