Will the Effort To Restore Equal Treatment Under Law for White Americans Succeed?
In 1995, 30 years ago, Henry Regnery published my book, The New Color Line. Henry told his son Alfred that my book was the second most important book, after Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, that the publishing house had ever published.
Reviewers agreed. Irving Kristol, the father of the neoconservatives, called attention in The Public Interest to the important message of my book. What had happened was the implementation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by the EEOC had overthrown the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, that required equal treatment of the law, by imposing racial quotas, explicitly prohibited in the statutory language of the 1964 CivilRights Act, against whites and in favor of blacks, against males and in favor of females in hiring, promotion, and university admission. This, of course, made whites and white males into second class citizens under the law as it was enforced by the US Department of Justice and federal courts including the US Supreme Court. This practice of making white Americans second class citizens in law has continued for 60 years.
Appreciative reviews from both right and left–Judge Robert H. Bork and Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz–attested to the non-ideological, non-partisan straight-shooting content of my book.
The New York Times Book Review wrote “A forceful and convincing case . . . vividly dramatic.”
The Wall Street Journal said “There are important lessons to learn . . . not least how good intentions can go badly awry.”
The Washington Post said “Roberts and Stratton make a strong case that the civil rights legislation of the 1960s has been distorted beyond recognition.”
I don’t remember any conservative or libertarian magazines taking notice of the book. Perhaps Regnery’s marketers did not think that endorsements from conservatives would be helpful, or perhaps conservatives saw my book as an assault on America’s virtue–“nothing that Roberts says could happen here!” This is the typical conservative reply to anything that doesn’t read rah-rah America.
All I know is that Henry Regnery died a year latter in 1996, and with his death the publisher went death on the book. It took another year of pressure by me to get Alfred to issue a paperback edition, and there was no marketing effort.
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