Liberal ideology a hindrance, not help

The recent flap over the arrest of a black professor gave rise to our black president's knee-jerk reaction, "The police acted stupidly!"

This is the usual programmed reaction to race relations by both black leadership and far-left liberals, and it has two purposes: First, it continues the enslavement of Afro-Americans; second, it attacks conservative ideals of government.

The enslavement of our black citizens began in the 1500s when native African leaders captured other native Africans and sold them to nonnative slave traders. Once in America, the slave, segregated by race, became trapped in permanent and perpetual slavery.

Slavery in America, being opposed to the Biblical rules of morality upon which our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were founded, was accepted as the economic compromise necessary for inclusion of Southern slaveholding states in the Union.

Even so, this compromise gave rise to efforts to end slavery, a struggle that led to the Civil War, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.

In addition to providing specific rights to the states, the Constitution is designed to promote justice, especially economic justice, criminal justice and sexual justice.

When Rep. John Bingham of Ohio proposed the 14th Amendment in 1866, he emphatically denied that its "due process" clause would strike down the rights of the states.

Unfortunately, activist judges have spent the past 50 years doing just that. Aided by liberal politicians, judges constantly replace the will of the governed with liberal ideology.

The liberal onslaught began in earnest with President Johnson's "Great Society," and the American black population has suffered immensely.

Liberal laws took fathers out of the black family. The black child born in slavery was more likely to grow up with both parents than is today's black child.

The modern Jim Crow laws have achieved 6 to 8 times more poverty, unemployment, drug addiction, homelessness, and criminal behavior than that of the general population.

Prisons now hold 1 of 100 Americans, but 1 of 15 black adults. Whereas 33 in 100 blacks graduated from college in the 1950s, now only 3 in 100 do.

The ultimate nullification of the rights guaranteed for the individual by the Constitution is abortion. Abortion ends all subsequent rights the individual might have enjoyed.

Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood has been highly successful in that liberal design, for 35 percent of abortions are among blacks vs. 12 percent for the overall population.

Emmit Lehman

Grayslake