Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, contends that there is in this article on TCSDaily.
Overwhelmingly, the so-called civil rights movement has wandered away from issues that actually matter to most blacks and now spends most of its energy in the frenzy over maintaining and expanding racial preferences. Innis, in contrast, thinks that the way the government is interfering with the market for energy hurts the poor a great deal by keeping energy prices high and reducing opportunities for economic advance.
This ought to become a major political issue. Are we going to keep the “greens” happy with all sorts of anti-growth, anti-energy policies, or are we going to scrap those policies so that poor people can have a chance at becoming un-poor?
