The AJC article, "Racial killings restaged today," by Jeffry Scott, says that black state Rep. Tyrone Brooks intends to stage "a reenactment of the 1946 Moore's Ford murders of four black people by a mob of white people on the banks of the Apalachee River in Walton County near Monroe." This reenactment on the spot is obviously intended primarily as a media event--to saturate the TV-news programs and reverberate in the newspapers thereafter.

Rep. Brooks is one of Georgia's leading civil-rights activists. For the past 20-odd years he has successfully led the fight to discredit and suppress the public display of the remaining symbols of the Confederacy (including the battle-flag emblem in the 1956 Georgia state flag), on the grounds that any reference to the Confederacy reminds all blacks of slavery and thereby causes them great and lasting emotional damage, because their great-great-great-great grandparents might have been slaves.

Yet many of the same black activists who are working to bury the South's Confederate heritage because they say it reminds them of slavery, are also demanding that additional slavery-museums and civil-rights museums be opened across the South. And now Rep. Brooks is restaging the murder of four blacks by whites in 1946 for the mass media.

Not only is this reenactment a prime example of the typical blatant use of the double standard by the black activists, it is also a prime example of racial hate-mongering, pure and simple. Today's FBI crime-statistics demonstrate clearly that for the past four decades, it has NOT been the evil whites who preponderantly robbed, maimed, or slaughtered innocent blacks; it HAS been the evil blacks who preponderantly robbed, maimed, or slaughtered innocent blacks and whites. Yet the black activists never publicly denounce those black criminals. For example, I have not heard Rep. Brooks demand the maximum punishment for the black hoodlums who recently fired a bottle rocket into the cab of a tanker truck driving down the road, almost putting out one of the eyes of the white driver, and then danced a victory dance atop the overturned truck, and then beat up the injured driver still further.

The black activists--having long since reached their legitimate objectives--cannot now let go and redirect their efforts, to attack the worst problem facing the black race: its current 70% illegitimacy rate, which has nothing to do with slavery or economics, and everything to do with morals and personal values. Because the black activists are unwilling or unable to provide any real leadership to their own race, they stay locked in their 1960s time-warp, and (with the aid of the liberal media) they continue to attack the white conservatives--who are not the cause of their present problems--by stirring up unnecessary racial-hatred among the blacks. And the inescapable bottom-line of the black activists' outdated approach is that those blacks who view themselves as victims necessarily also view themselves as losers.

Frank Conner is the author of "The South Under Siege 1830 - 2000/ A History of the Relations Between the North and the South." You may contact him at frankconner@mail.newnanutilities.org, or learn about his book available at Amazon.com.