You know that commercial for the office supply chain? When there’s some office emergency, someone just pushes a big red button and makes it ok?
Well, we need a Slavery Button. One that makes a satisfying “you lose” game show noise.
From now on, whenever an American blames their problems on “the legacy of slavery”, we push the button and say:
“Sorry! You can’t use that excuse any more for why you’re a loser!! Time. For. You. To. Shut. The. Hell. UP!!”
Except here’s the problem:
America has finally thrown off the legacy of slavery.
And embraced a new form.
You’ve finally arrived on the plantation at the end of the Road to Serfdom.
This was the only way the saga of the Civil Rights Movement could end — with its bullying anti-private property tactics disguised as noble non-violence, with Martin Luther King advocating Marxism in his last days:
It has ended with the opposite of true freedom.