Tammy’s Reviews > The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties > Status Update

“Media jobs in the old days had been spread nationwide and linked to political culture cultures of the diverse relationships… But 3/4 (73% ) of the 21st century Internet media jobs were either in the northeast corridor, on the West Coast, or in Chicago… Only rarely now did people at the top of society meet with people who disagree with them.”

“… made no distinction between voluntary initiatives & government compulsion, & seemed not to realize that their own chances of prevailing on matters of law had fallen to nil. Once social issues could be cast as battles over civil rights, Republicans would lose 100% of the time. The agenda of ‘ diversity’ advanced when its proponents won elections & when they lost them. Voters had not yet figured that out.

“Most countries shaken by student activism in 1968 …’ two step evolution-from a dream of orthodox social revolution to a movement for personal.’ by the former Burman socialism; by the ladder human civil rights.“

Whatever it was that stirred business about the holiday, it was not King himself. Consulted Paul Mandabach, which public relations firm,Winner/Wagner)Mandebach, marketed the campaign, later said that the key to passing the holiday had been “messages emphasizing-not Dr. King’s life.“

“Immigrant rights, children’s rights, gay rights, and the rights of the age were not in a civil rights legislation, but they could be easily induced from it. The civil rights movement was a template. The new system for overthrow the traditions that hindered black people became the model for overthrowing every tradition in American life, starting with the roles of men and women.“