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© 2016 by David Horowitz
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Horowitz, David, 1939– author. Title: Progressive racism: / by David Horowitz.
Description: New York: Encounter Books, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015038178 | ISBN 9781594038600 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Racism—United States. | United States—Race relations. | African Americans—Civil rights. | Civil rights movements—United States—History—20th century.
Classification: LCC E185.615 .H674 2016 | DDC 305.800973—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015038178
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
PART I: The Reds and the Blacks
PART II: Decline and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement
1 · Memories in Memphis
2 · Clarence Page’s Race Problem, and Mine
3 · Black History Lesson
4 · Farrakhan and the Right
5 · A Washer Woman Shall Lead Them
6 · Alternative to Affirmative Action
7 · Progressives Support Racial Divisions
8 · Johnnie’s Other O.J.
9 · When “Civil Rights” Become Civil Wrongs
10 · An Academic Lynching
11 · Choke Your Coach, Become a Cause
12 · “Liberals” Want a Racial Monologue
13 · Hate Crimes Are Multicultural, Too
14 · One Who Will Not Be Missed
PART III: Racial Correctness
1 · The Race Card (co-authored with Peter Collier)
2 · Guns Don’t Kill Black People, Other Black People Do
3 · Time Magazine’s Attack
4 · Walk in My Shoes
5 · Cornel West: Affirmative Action Baby
6 · Reverse McCarthyism
7 · Throw Away the Key
8 · Racial Shakedowns
9 · Racial Killings & Gun Control
10 · The Lead Investigator Strikes Back
11 · Deafening Silence
12 · No Reason to Glorify the Left’s Legacy of Violence
13 · What Hillary Clinton Won’t Say
PART IV: Reparations for Slavery
1 · Ten Reasons Why Reparations Are a Bad Idea
2 · Reparations Are Still a Bad Idea
3 · Racial McCarthyism on College Campuses
4 · The Underhanded Journalism of Jonathan Alter
5 · No Decency, No Shame
6 · A Protection Racket
7 · Reparations Buffoons on the Washington Mall
PART V: Progressive Racism
1 · Death of the Civil Rights Movement
2 · Washington’s Disgraceful Report to the UN
3 · Racial Witch-Hunt
4 · Progressive Crime Wave
5 · Chris Matthews: White and Blind
6 · Racism at The Washington Post
7 · Blacks in Vietnam: Another Leftist Myth
8 · Freedom From Race
9 · The Casual Racism of Phil Donahue
10 · An Argument With the Racial Right
11 · African-American Lynch Mob
12 · Second Thoughts About Trayvon
13 · Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream (co-authored with John Perazzo)
Index
In August 2014 the shooting of a black criminal in Ferguson Missouri by a white police officer led to a series of riots lasting several months, and eventually inspired national protests making it the civil rights cause of the Obama era. The protesters’ indictment was summarized in a chant “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” which symbolized their claim that the nation’s police had declared open season on unarmed black citizens and were killing them for the crime of being black. During the public disturbances surrounding the Ferguson events the president and his chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric Holder, exhibited active sympathy and support for the movement’s complaints.
When the facts were finally established by forensic evidence and grand jury testimony, and eventually by a separate Department of Justice investigation conducted by Holder himself, they refuted the movement’s central claim.11 Forensics, video records and the testimony of five black eyewitnesses established that the alleged victim Michael Brown, was targeted for arrest not because he was black but because he had just committed a strong-armed robbery. He did not have his hands in the air and was not shot while surrendering but while attacking the arresting officer whose gun he attempted to wrestle from its holster.
In short, the actions of the crowds that burned the city of Ferguson and looted its community businesses even before the facts were in, and which continued their rampages even after the facts were established, were not those of a civil rights protest but of a lynch mob, unconcerned with the evidence, impatient with due process, and intent on ensuring that a severely injured officer who had been the victim of a criminal attack be indicted,