The civil rights movement is not new. The civil rights movement did not begin yesterday. The “‘new’ civil rights movement” did not begin yesterday. QED.
- J. Brady McCollough
The student activists’ de rigueur Diag rally celebrating yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court “victory” would not have irritated me nearly as much had it not been for the self-righteous self-alignment of a few vocal campus personalities with the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. I don’t fault them for that alignment – the world would be a better place if more people aligned themselves with such heroes – but I do fault them for insinuating that the “old” civil rights movement is pass