Civil rights icon accuses left of treating blacks ‘like an exotic pet,’ predicts backlash – IOTW Report

Civil rights icon accuses left of treating blacks ‘like an exotic pet,’ predicts backlash

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Akey 1960s civil rights leader is accusing the political left of manufacturing anger to profit from a “race grievance industry,” warning the African-American community is fatigued by the tactics and poised to rebel against continued efforts to treat blacks “like an exotic pet.”

Robert Woodson told Just the News an impending backlash could impact universities spreading controversial critical race theory, corporations bowing to Black Lives Matter, voting right activists who decry voter ID requirements as Jim Crow suppression and liberal white elitists who portray America as systemically racist.

“It’s insulting and demeaning. It’s patronizing,” Woodson told the John Solomon Reportspodcast on Monday. “And it makes me really angry. … It would get a lot better if white people just take a pledge and stop helping black people.

“Get out of the way, stop telling us that, on the one hand, America is a racist society. And then those same races are the agents that’s going to deliver you from yourself. What kind of message is that?”

Woodson was an iconic leader of the 1960s civil rights movement, including with the NAACP and the Urban League. But as many of his peers in the movement moved to Democratic politics, Woodson said he became disillusioned that government wasn’t helping solve poverty so he began to espouse new tactics based on economic development, self-empowerment and personal responsibility, eventually embraced by conservatives.

Today, he said, many of those preaching civil rights are white liberals or blacks who have created organizations that profit from the racism narrative, a subject of his new book that comes out Tuesday entitled “Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers.” read more

9 Comments on Civil rights icon accuses left of treating blacks ‘like an exotic pet,’ predicts backlash

  1. Subtly, about 9 months ago, the term “Institutional Racism” was replaced with “Systemic Racism” The reason is that the institutions of this country include Academia, the Press, the entertainment industry, the administrative wings of local, state and federal government and Fortune 100 companies.

    These institutions, and others, are notoriously left-wing. Institutional racism indicts the left and no one else.

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