Grievance Culture Quotes
Lame was not opposed to civil rights as some who read this quotation sometimes conclude. He did think that much of the lack of success of minorities in America could be ameliorated by many self-improvement and individual efforts. His reference to destroying America, was an interesting rhetorical technique of assuming that what you advocate is not implemented and showing that it leads to disaster. Phrased this way, it gets and focuses the attention of an audience.
American parties who primarily lived to relieve its grievances were the socialists and communists of the 1920’s and 1930’s on the left and the Republicans after the New Deal and in the early 21st century.
