Thanks radman but I didn't write the second comment (this is the first time I've seen it) and wouldn't have phrased it that way. I also am not responsible for the identity checks at the door (I suspect this is the Columbia Administration's doing). radman wrote: > radman pull quotes: > > "I have always considered myself part of the civil rights movement, and > have tried to advance its goals." > > "Security will be tight, with identity checks at the door, to screen out > troublemakers." > > =============================================================== > The Death of the Civil Rights Movement > > Into the Belly of the Beast > > <http://frontpagemag.com/notepad/hn10-09-00.htm> > > David Horowitz will speak on "The Death of the Civil Rights Movement" at > the Columbia Federalist Society at the Columbia University Law School in > Jerome Green Hall, Room 107 at 12:15 PM Eastern Time, on Wednesday October > 11, in New York City. > > New Pamphlet > The Death of the Civil Rights Movement > By David Horowitz > Center for the Study of Popular Culture > 48 pages, $7.50 > October 2000 > > FrontPageMagazine.com | October 9, 2000 > > Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson decry "racial profiling." But they practice > it more brazenly than anyone else, says David Horowitz in his new > pamphlet, The Death of the Civil Rights Movement. Attempts by the left to > elevate blacks into a privileged caste have made a mockery of civil > rights, Horowitz charges. This Wednesday, he will bring his controversial > message into the very belly of the liberal beast -- Columbia University > Law School -- where he will speak on reparations, leftist race-mongering > and other explosive issues. Security will be tight, with identity checks > at the door, to screen out troublemakers. "I am doing this because we must > never surrender territory to the enemy," Horowitz explains. "That's how we > lost the universities in the first place. To me, going to a university > like Columbia, these days, is like going behind the Iron Curtain during > the Cold War. Our colleges are the most racially segregated, > intellectually retrograde and politically repressive institutions in > America today. And that is a national tragedy." > > AT THE 1984 Democratic Convention, Texas representative Barbara Jordan, > the first African-American woman to win a seat in Congress, made the > following statement: > > "We are one, we Americans; we are one. And we reject any intruder who > seeks to divide us on the basis of race and color. We must not allow ideas > like political correctness to divide us and cause us to reverse hard-won > achievements in human rights and civil rights. We reject both White racism > and Black racism. Our strength in this country is rooted in our > diversity-our history bears witness to that fact. E PLURIBUS UNUM, from > many one. It was a good idea when the country was founded, and it's a good > idea today." > > I first became aware of the civil rights struggle in the late 1940s, when > I read about the Scottsboro boys and marched in support of the Federal > Employment Practices Commission that Harry Truman had created to end > discrimination in government service. In the fifty-odd years since, I have > always considered myself part of the civil rights movement, and have tried > to advance its goals. In these efforts I have always been guided by the > principle of a single standard articulated by Barbara Jordan. It is the > principle first proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence that all > Americans are equal in the eyes of God, and should be equal before the > law. It is the principle embraced by Martin Luther King at the March on > Washington in 1963, and by the American founders, whose Constitution > written in 1787 does not use the words "black" or "white," "male" or > "female" in its text. > > At the same time, this principle obviously has not always been honored by > American citizens and governments, which is why a "civil rights" movement > is necessary, and would have to be created if there were none. It has > always seemed self-evident to me that a movement that did not honor this > principle was not worthy of the civil rights name. The present booklet is > written in support of this idea. > ---- > David Horowitz is editor-in-chief of FrontPageMagazine.com and president > of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture.
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