April 27, 2025 • 13 mins
Overview: Despite frequent claims that the United States remains “systemically racist,” the historical record from the 1960s onward shows major progress in civil rights, legal equality, economic opportunity, and social acceptance for African Americans. Landmark laws outlawed formal discrimination, Black educational and income levels have climbed, and even the presidency has been held by a Black man. Critics note that the narrative of an ongoing system of racial oppression is largely fueled by media sensationalism and political agendasloc.govarchives.gov. Indeed, as one conservative scholar bluntly put it, “‘systemic racism’ is a myth and a dodge”hoover.org. This five-part series examines the evolution of race narratives in U.S. media and politics since 1960, highlighting factual progress and exploring which groups have benefited from a climate of perpetual racial grievance.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Morning Report, a production of Fightbackmedia dot Com,
the number one source of urban conservative information in America. Well,
good morning. My name is Willie Lawson of The Morning
Report and Fightbackmedia dot Com. Thank you so much for
joining us today. This video is going to be here
(00:21):
on YouTube and the first video free video on our
Patreon account. So if you're on Patreon, you have to
see it on Patreon. Or if you're on YouTube and
you're thinking, yeah, I think I want to support this
on Patreon, go ahead and click over. This is the
first part of a series. So we're going to have
the first part here and the rest of it on Patreon,
(00:43):
so you can go ahead and enjoy that there. All right, listen,
we've got to talk about this myth anymore of systemic racism.
Despite frequent claim, but the United States remains systemically racist.
The historical record from the nineteen sixties onward show major
progress in civil ranks, lequal equality and economic opportunity, and
(01:08):
social acceptance for African Americans, landmark laws for outlawed formal discrimination.
Now I say that, but so if an individual decides
to be racist, well, you know, there's really not much
you can do if the dude down at the corner
store is still a bigot and a and as a
(01:31):
member of a shrinking ku klux Klan organization, there's really
not much you can do about that. Brilliant, But these
laws have outlawed formal discrimination, which breaks the idea that
the country is now is still systemically racist. Black educational
(01:52):
and income levels have climbed, and even the presidency has
been held by a black man. I remember, right. Critics
note that the narrative of an ongoing system of racial
oppression is largely fueled by media sensationalism. And we saw that,
and we continue to see that if a white officer
(02:15):
shoots a black suspect, then it's obviously because a race. Obviously,
if a black officer shoots a white suspect, armed or unarmed,
it goes largely unless you live there, it goes ignored.
No one even mentions it. That's amazing, So because there's
(02:38):
nothing sensational about it. So again, this suppression is largely
feeled by media sensationalism and political agendas. You know, as
one conservative Schlar bluntly put it, systemic racism is a myth,
a dodge. So again, this five parts series examines the
(03:01):
evolution of race narratives in the US media and in
politics since nineteen sixty. We're going to be highlighting factual
progress and exploring which groups had benefited from a climate
of the perpetual racial preevances. All right, Part one. Civil
(03:23):
rights breakthroughs through the nineteen sixties. The early sixties saw
saw a final dismantling of the DuJour se negation in
America with landmark legislation, notably the Civil Rights Act of
nineteen sixty four and the Voting Rights Act of nineteen
sixty five. They both forbad racial discrimination in schools, workplaces, housing,
(03:48):
public accommodations, and voting. So, according to the labrary of Congress,
the nineteen sixty four Act hastened the end of legal
Jim crow a secured Act American Equal Access and restaurants, transportation,
and other public facilities, and enabled many black students to
attend integrated schools. So within months, peaceful protests for voting
(04:14):
rights in the Deep South had moved Congress. So by
nineteen sixty five, President Johnston signed the Voting Rights Act,
which outlawed literacy tests and sent federal registrars into the South.
In immediate impact. As the National Archives reports, by the
end of nineteen sixty five, a quarter million new black
(04:38):
voters had been registered, one third by federal examiners. So
within a few years, most Southern states saw black voter
rolls soar from near zero to majorities. These changes instantly
erased decades of exclusion. The nineteen sixty four Civil Rights
(05:01):
Act band segregations in schools, workplaces, and public life. Segregated
lunch counters, restrooms, and parks vanished virtually overnight. Now I'm
not saying for one second that there weren't people individuals
who were happy about all this. That would be foolish.
(05:28):
But what I am saying is that the systemic part
of what a lot of these people are continuing to
push had been ripped out by things like the Voting
Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of sixty four
and the Voting Rights Act of sixty five, so outlawed
(05:49):
bear it, you know, because because the Voting Rights Act
outlawed barriers like literacy tests, can you read this? So
a surge or blackwater registration followed immediately. Oh and in
nineteen sixty eight, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal
to discriminate in home sales rentals on account of race
(06:13):
sealing legal equality in housing. Now, did that still take place, yes,
but it was illegal. Now. People were suffering through this,
for sure, but it was illegal, and these people needed
to be brought upon charges and prosecuted. Because the discrimination
(06:33):
that we saw, the red lining that people talk about,
that did go on. I'm not blind. It was illegal
and had been made illegal. So there was no systemic
law that made it happen or kept it happening. It
was individuals who were breaking the law right, So in
(06:56):
sixty seven and seventy two Supreme Court decisions abolished any
remaining state barriers. For example, interracial marriages bands were struck
down in sixty seven. Those measures fully leveled the legal
playing field. No American could, by law, and this is important,
by law deny jobs, loans, voting, or education to someone
(07:22):
because of race. So if there was a system of racism,
then laws and decisions made in sixty seven and seventy
two by the Supreme Court band that those laws did.
The idea that an entire system of law remained rigged
(07:44):
by race is undermined by these undeniable facts ofslative legislative history.
So by by late nineteen sixties, even in the Deep South,
Jim Crow was formerly dead media media. Here's the media narratives.
The Civil Rights Act and assuming the era itself was
(08:06):
intensely covered by the media, which often portrayed the struggle
in stark moral terms. Images of protests and violence Birmingham
Selma energized public opinion. However, the media narrative that arose
then was largely that of a unified national triumph of
(08:29):
a racism, not of pervasive systemic oppression. In fact, coverage
often emphasized progress, for example de segregation victories and bipartisan support.
Only now are we dealing with more one sided narratives.
(08:52):
That's what we're seeing. Now. We're seeing, we're still hearing
from from from media mounts of systemic racism going on,
and they're painting everything with that where it makes no sense.
Let's move to recently the NFL draft where Shudur Sanders,
(09:14):
who people had thought that because of his play, was
going to be drafted either first or second in the
recent NFL draft. As it turned out, he was drafted
one hundred and forty fourth I believe, somewhere in the
fourth round. And of course the bugaboos came out talking
(09:36):
about this is obviously racist, ignoring completely ignoring the fact
that the first overall pick was a quarterback, a black
quarterback whose name is cam Ward, who was a quarterback
of Miami, and I think he was at he was
(09:59):
at a place called Incarnate Word for a couple of seasons,
and he went on to Washington State and then transferred
to Miami and finished there and was the first overall
pick of the draft a black quarterback. So somehow making
it about race seems silly, but that's what media does then.
(10:24):
And there are people, and we're going to find out
in later episodes of this particular series of some of
the people who benefit by such ridiculousness and by such division,
because there is no doubt that people are benefiting by this.
So the next part of this series is the economic
(10:46):
and social progress from the nineteen seventies to the early
two thousands. The third part is going to be a
new narrative from the two thousands to present and two
thousands it seems like, oh, very long ago. It was
twenty five years ago. It was a quarter is it
for you? Go, oh my god? And then part four,
who benefits from racial agitation, and then we're going to
(11:08):
talk about now that the myth is exposed, what can
we do to reunify America or to unify America. Thank
you again for your time, thank you for coming to
the Morning Report, and thank you for going out to
Patreon and checking us out. And we're really super appreciated.
(11:29):
And our new affiliate, seven Weeks Coffee. I'm gonna do
a piece in a minute. Please. If you like coffee
and you enjoy coffee, and you and your pro life
and you want to see people people benefit, you want
to see people kept alive, go ahead and explore our
friends at seven Weeks Coffee. All right, do we see
(11:51):
you again? Go out there and learns and love somebody,
and for goodness sakes, gon't take care of yourself. We
will see you when we see you. Bye bye now. Hi,
I'm Willie Lawston of the Morning Reports. You know, when
all our work here on Mourner Report and fight Back Media,
what we have found being true is one thing for sure,
Godly principles are lacking on both sides of the aisle,
(12:16):
and many organizations are putting profits before people. Our friend
that seven Weeks Coffee was started to reverse that trend
and live out their calling as believers in the marketplace.
As a value based business, seven Weeks Coffee has a
(12:37):
simple and transparent mission to donate ten percent of every
sale to pregnancy care centers across the nation. They are
committed to earning your trust, not expecting it, and how
how do they do this? By leading with their values,
(12:59):
showing the impact, and providing the highest quality product. Y'all know,
I'm a Christian, I'm a conservative, and seven Weeks Coffee
unapologetically supports pregnancy centers across the nation. Join us by
letting your coffee serve a greater purpose.
Welcome to the Morning Report, a production of Fightbackmedia dot Com,
the number one source of urban conservative information in America. Well,
good morning. My name is Willie Lawson of The Morning
Report and Fightbackmedia dot Com. Thank you so much for
joining us today. This video is going to be here
(00:21):
on YouTube and the first video free video on our
Patreon account. So if you're on Patreon, you have to
see it on Patreon. Or if you're on YouTube and
you're thinking, yeah, I think I want to support this
on Patreon, go ahead and click over. This is the
first part of a series. So we're going to have
the first part here and the rest of it on Patreon,
(00:43):
so you can go ahead and enjoy that there. All right, listen,
we've got to talk about this myth anymore of systemic racism.
Despite frequent claim, but the United States remains systemically racist.
The historical record from the nineteen sixties onward show major
progress in civil ranks, lequal equality and economic opportunity, and
(01:08):
social acceptance for African Americans, landmark laws for outlawed formal discrimination.
Now I say that, but so if an individual decides
to be racist, well, you know, there's really not much
you can do if the dude down at the corner
store is still a bigot and a and as a
(01:31):
member of a shrinking ku klux Klan organization, there's really
not much you can do about that. Brilliant, But these
laws have outlawed formal discrimination, which breaks the idea that
the country is now is still systemically racist. Black educational
(01:52):
and income levels have climbed, and even the presidency has
been held by a black man. I remember, right. Critics
note that the narrative of an ongoing system of racial
oppression is largely fueled by media sensationalism. And we saw that,
and we continue to see that if a white officer
(02:15):
shoots a black suspect, then it's obviously because a race. Obviously,
if a black officer shoots a white suspect, armed or unarmed,
it goes largely unless you live there, it goes ignored.
No one even mentions it. That's amazing, So because there's
(02:38):
nothing sensational about it. So again, this suppression is largely
feeled by media sensationalism and political agendas. You know, as
one conservative Schlar bluntly put it, systemic racism is a myth,
a dodge. So again, this five parts series examines the
(03:01):
evolution of race narratives in the US media and in
politics since nineteen sixty. We're going to be highlighting factual
progress and exploring which groups had benefited from a climate
of the perpetual racial preevances. All right, Part one. Civil
(03:23):
rights breakthroughs through the nineteen sixties. The early sixties saw
saw a final dismantling of the DuJour se negation in
America with landmark legislation, notably the Civil Rights Act of
nineteen sixty four and the Voting Rights Act of nineteen
sixty five. They both forbad racial discrimination in schools, workplaces, housing,
(03:48):
public accommodations, and voting. So, according to the labrary of Congress,
the nineteen sixty four Act hastened the end of legal
Jim crow a secured Act American Equal Access and restaurants, transportation,
and other public facilities, and enabled many black students to
attend integrated schools. So within months, peaceful protests for voting
(04:14):
rights in the Deep South had moved Congress. So by
nineteen sixty five, President Johnston signed the Voting Rights Act,
which outlawed literacy tests and sent federal registrars into the South.
In immediate impact. As the National Archives reports, by the
end of nineteen sixty five, a quarter million new black
(04:38):
voters had been registered, one third by federal examiners. So
within a few years, most Southern states saw black voter
rolls soar from near zero to majorities. These changes instantly
erased decades of exclusion. The nineteen sixty four Civil Rights
(05:01):
Act band segregations in schools, workplaces, and public life. Segregated
lunch counters, restrooms, and parks vanished virtually overnight. Now I'm
not saying for one second that there weren't people individuals
who were happy about all this. That would be foolish.
(05:28):
But what I am saying is that the systemic part
of what a lot of these people are continuing to
push had been ripped out by things like the Voting
Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of sixty four
and the Voting Rights Act of sixty five, so outlawed
(05:49):
bear it, you know, because because the Voting Rights Act
outlawed barriers like literacy tests, can you read this? So
a surge or blackwater registration followed immediately. Oh and in
nineteen sixty eight, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal
to discriminate in home sales rentals on account of race
(06:13):
sealing legal equality in housing. Now, did that still take place, yes,
but it was illegal. Now. People were suffering through this,
for sure, but it was illegal, and these people needed
to be brought upon charges and prosecuted. Because the discrimination
(06:33):
that we saw, the red lining that people talk about,
that did go on. I'm not blind. It was illegal
and had been made illegal. So there was no systemic
law that made it happen or kept it happening. It
was individuals who were breaking the law right, So in
(06:56):
sixty seven and seventy two Supreme Court decisions abolished any
remaining state barriers. For example, interracial marriages bands were struck
down in sixty seven. Those measures fully leveled the legal
playing field. No American could, by law, and this is important,
by law deny jobs, loans, voting, or education to someone
(07:22):
because of race. So if there was a system of racism,
then laws and decisions made in sixty seven and seventy
two by the Supreme Court band that those laws did.
The idea that an entire system of law remained rigged
(07:44):
by race is undermined by these undeniable facts ofslative legislative history.
So by by late nineteen sixties, even in the Deep South,
Jim Crow was formerly dead media media. Here's the media narratives.
The Civil Rights Act and assuming the era itself was
(08:06):
intensely covered by the media, which often portrayed the struggle
in stark moral terms. Images of protests and violence Birmingham
Selma energized public opinion. However, the media narrative that arose
then was largely that of a unified national triumph of
(08:29):
a racism, not of pervasive systemic oppression. In fact, coverage
often emphasized progress, for example de segregation victories and bipartisan support.
Only now are we dealing with more one sided narratives.
(08:52):
That's what we're seeing. Now. We're seeing, we're still hearing
from from from media mounts of systemic racism going on,
and they're painting everything with that where it makes no sense.
Let's move to recently the NFL draft where Shudur Sanders,
(09:14):
who people had thought that because of his play, was
going to be drafted either first or second in the
recent NFL draft. As it turned out, he was drafted
one hundred and forty fourth I believe, somewhere in the
fourth round. And of course the bugaboos came out talking
(09:36):
about this is obviously racist, ignoring completely ignoring the fact
that the first overall pick was a quarterback, a black
quarterback whose name is cam Ward, who was a quarterback
of Miami, and I think he was at he was
(09:59):
at a place called Incarnate Word for a couple of seasons,
and he went on to Washington State and then transferred
to Miami and finished there and was the first overall
pick of the draft a black quarterback. So somehow making
it about race seems silly, but that's what media does then.
(10:24):
And there are people, and we're going to find out
in later episodes of this particular series of some of
the people who benefit by such ridiculousness and by such division,
because there is no doubt that people are benefiting by this.
So the next part of this series is the economic
(10:46):
and social progress from the nineteen seventies to the early
two thousands. The third part is going to be a
new narrative from the two thousands to present and two
thousands it seems like, oh, very long ago. It was
twenty five years ago. It was a quarter is it
for you? Go, oh my god? And then part four,
who benefits from racial agitation, and then we're going to
(11:08):
talk about now that the myth is exposed, what can
we do to reunify America or to unify America. Thank
you again for your time, thank you for coming to
the Morning Report, and thank you for going out to
Patreon and checking us out. And we're really super appreciated.
(11:29):
And our new affiliate, seven Weeks Coffee. I'm gonna do
a piece in a minute. Please. If you like coffee
and you enjoy coffee, and you and your pro life
and you want to see people people benefit, you want
to see people kept alive, go ahead and explore our
friends at seven Weeks Coffee. All right, do we see
(11:51):
you again? Go out there and learns and love somebody,
and for goodness sakes, gon't take care of yourself. We
will see you when we see you. Bye bye now. Hi,
I'm Willie Lawston of the Morning Reports. You know, when
all our work here on Mourner Report and fight Back Media,
what we have found being true is one thing for sure,
Godly principles are lacking on both sides of the aisle,
(12:16):
and many organizations are putting profits before people. Our friend
that seven Weeks Coffee was started to reverse that trend
and live out their calling as believers in the marketplace.
As a value based business, seven Weeks Coffee has a
(12:37):
simple and transparent mission to donate ten percent of every
sale to pregnancy care centers across the nation. They are
committed to earning your trust, not expecting it, and how
how do they do this? By leading with their values,
(12:59):
showing the impact, and providing the highest quality product. Y'all know,
I'm a Christian, I'm a conservative, and seven Weeks Coffee
unapologetically supports pregnancy centers across the nation. Join us by
letting your coffee serve a greater purpose.
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