Is Obamas Election as the First Black President Conclusive Evidence of the Civil Rights Movements Success?
By Herbert Calhoun Judging by the serious meltdown across the national landscape in the mostly black occupied inner cities, those who would answer this question in the affirmative — supporting the thesis that the Civil Rights Movement has been a success — would be hard-pressed to make their case based on a serious review of any objective evidence. I believe the best they can do is to continue to fall back on anecdotal and wholly impressionistic (mostly media-guided wish-fulfilling pronouncements) which appear, on the surface to have an objective basis in fact, but which, upon careful analysis and examination, is revealed to be embarrassingly hollow, mostly ephemeral, always reversible, and based on the filmiest and softest of evidence. Proponents of this view cite, as their best evidence of the success of the Civil Rights Movement, the fact that “Blacks have moved into the middle class;” and that there are “a large number of black mayors and other elected officials all across the lan
