The Oppressed Have Become the Oppressor

I was at BWI on Tuesday and while proceeding through security this day, I noticed that every TSA agent and police officer at the security checkpoint this time was black. And I thought to myself that the Civil Rights Movement has failed. My understanding of the Civil Rights movement was that black and white people united to end the oppression of blacks at the hands of racist whites and their government. And I realized on Tuesday that now black people are able to rise throught the ranks of government and abuse everyone regardless of race. Blacks can work for the TSA, DEA, FBI, IRS, ICE, FCC, FTC, DOJ, Capitol Police, Homeland Security Police, State police, and county police. They can become a solider or a general or a Secretary of State or attorney general or even president. And in each of these roles, blacks can oppress their fellow Americans and people in foreign lands just like the US Federal Government did while it was run exclusively by white men.

I seriously doubt that those who suffered and died to advance civil rights thought that one day in the future black men and black women would be empowed to visit the same humiliation upon people of all races that their ancestors experienced during slavery and Jim Crow. I seriously doubt that Medgar Evers thought that one day blacks would be able to become police officers, and through the war on drugs, imprison and kill black men. I seriously doubt that Rosa Parks believed that her suffering would lead to a day where black people could molest and humiliate airline passengers all in the name of "security". I seriously doubt that Malcom X thought that one day, blacks would no longer face discrimination in the military and they could also go to foreign countries and kill brown people and Muslims to defend America. And I seriously doubt that Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream that one day a black man would become president who would continue the war on drugs that imprisons and kills black people; support the TSA that molests and humliates people of all races; and continue wars where brown people and Muslims in six different countries are bombed. This is not success for black people.

In Liberalism, Mises stated that the natives in European colonies have only learned the worst traits of the Europeans themselves. He wrote:

It may be safely taken for granted that up to now the natives have learned only evil ways from the Europeans, and not good ones. This is not the fault of the natives, but rather of their European conquerors, who have taught them nothing but evil. They have brought arms and engines of destruction of all kinds to the colonies; they have sent out their worst and most brutal individuals as officials and officers; at the point of the sword they have set up a colonial rule that in its sanguinary cruelty rivals the despotic system of the Bolsheviks. Europeans must not be surprised if the bad example that they themselves have set in their colonies now bears evil fruit. In any case, they have no right to complain pharisaically about the low state of public morals among the natives. Nor would they be justified in maintaining that the natives are not yet mature enough for freedom and that they still need at least several years of further education under the lash of foreign rulers before they are capable of being, left on their own. For this "education" itself is at least partly responsible for the terrible conditions that exist today in the colonies, even though its consequences will not make themselves fully apparent until after the eventual withdrawal of European troops and officials.

It's clear to me that blacks in this country have learned the evil ways of the Europeans all too well. We have learned how to oppress our own people in this country through the war on drugs and terror, and to oppress brown people in other countries through "wars of libertation". Barack Obama's rise to the presidency demonstrates that at least one black man learned to lie, steal, and kill just as well as the 43 white men who preceded him. In fact, Obama might be better at killing people than the 43 white men who preceded him. Other than Bush II, those presidents did not have drones and Bush II did not have nearly the same affinity to use drones as Obama does. The descendants of African slaves now have equal opportunity to oppress people all races via the State. This was not the type of "equality" that members of the Civil Rights movement suffered and died for.

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I've long noted that the segment of our society most obsessed with historical slavery, is the same crowd most desirous of remaining firmly ensconced on the modern Federal Plantation.