Daily Wire host: “The civil rights era brought horrors beyond imagination to innocent men, women, and children throughout the United States”
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From the April 6, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): The truth is that no one has a right to housing. No one has a right to someone else's labor or someone else's property. You have the right to speak your mind, to practice your religion, defend yourself, and so on. You don't have a right to force other people to house you, obviously. That's slavery. These squatters are enslaving their landlords. Their landlords are their slaves. I'm being forced to provide for you. That's slavery. Beginning in 1960s as part of the radical transformation of the civil rights era, Democrats decided to reject, you know, fundamental American principles. They decided to begin forcing people to hire candidates on the basis of race, to force their children to attend schools they didn't want to attend, and so on. And as they did so, Democrat elites made every effort to avoid confronting the consequences of their own decisions.
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That's a guiding ethos of the American left beginning with the civil rights era. They unleash pure destruction, devastation on American cities, and then they left ordinary Americans to deal with the carnage that was left behind in their wake. And when I say carnage, if anything, that's an understatement. The civil rights era brought horrors beyond imagination to innocent men, women, and children throughout the United States, and that's why, I can tell you the next two episodes of my documentary series Real History are going to explore this. They're going to explore the extent of this devastation from the Civil Rights Act and how exactly it happened.