Roger,
A very interesting piece, and this is the first time I knew you weren’t a 9-11 conversion.
Affirmative action, nasty as it is, hardly explains the shocking event. You miss a critical point that other commenters have hinted at: the civil rights movement degenerated into a victimology culture. No matter what happens to blacks (or you name it “minority group/females/LGBTs”), it is the fault of the oppressive white majority, or (for our generation) “the establishment”. Always! This lesson has not been lost on the formerly proud, now angry and deceived black community.
The left is intimately tied to the cult of the oppressor/oppressed, explaining most misfortune with that narrative. Multiculturlaism, also a repellent descendant of the civil rights movement reeks of it (along with general American culture hate).
Of course, the white majority, or Americans in general, or “the rich”, or whoever are always the oppressor, evil in motive and deed.
I suspect this distortion ultimately derives from the influence of Marxist class theory and other hard left ideas.
Today, the Democratic party cannot exist without adhering to this poisonous ideology.
