The civil rights movement was about giving everyone an opportunity to succeed and treating everyone fairly, the left has turned against that message. Bob Woodson writes:
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned a just and equitable America, in which citizens treated each other as persons rather than as carriers of an indelible racial imprint.
Today, the progressive left has bet against King's vision: we are not persons, we are our racial identities, and anyone who rejects that view is guilty of racism.
King himself would be called out and targeted for "anti-bias" reeducation if he were alive today.
The Civil Rights Movement of which I was proudly a part has been betrayed by a twisted progressive ideology that hyper-racializes our country.
[Bob Woodson, "The Civil Rights Movement I was a Part of Has Been Betrayed By a Twisted Progressive Ideology," March 19]
