The PC story is that blacks did it all themselves

The PC story.

The movie ‘Selma’ has a glaring flaw

Black Americans freed themselves from slavery, no thanks to Lincoln or the generations of white abolitionists before him or the hundreds of thousands of Union dead.

And they fought and won the battles of the civil rights era, no thanks to IKE, Nixon, Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon again.

Not to mention the Supremes and a multitude of inferior federal courts from 1954 right up through the 1970s.

The truth.

In fact all the political heavy lifting was done by whites with at most street-theater support from blacks.

But admitting that would destroy the preferred race narrative of the left that pits whites against everybody else and depicts America as a morally revolting society of permanent, all but irresistible, and unrelieved white racism piling hate and violence and disability on everyone else.

Joe Califano isn't playing along.