The author generalizes that because the protesters “like anarchy they . . . like vigilantism . . . trying to undo the civil-rights work of the 1960s by making this a racial issue.” So the civil-rights movement in the 1960s was not about race?

Anyone lucky enough to read the work of Pulitzer Prize winner and child psychiatrist Robert Coles in The Moral Life of Children knows something about a true civil-rights leader – 6 year-old Ruby Bridges. Ruby, a black child, showed the world something about race relations with quiet dignity – not “anarchy” or vigilantism.

In 1960, she attended school in New Orleans most of the year by herself due to a boycott by white parents who were protesting the first wave of school desegregation. She had to be escorted by federal marshals up to school as the white parents heckled her, cursed her and spat at her. In the archival footage on film, Ruby is seen smiling at the hecklers, and she even told Coles that she “prayed for them because they don’t know what they are doing.”

This is what a “progressive utopia” is, not the utopia claimed in Feazel’s rant.

Michael Anziano

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