Denial of individual freedom and liberties

The federal government has used the guise of Civil Rights to make a grab at American rights. They have used Civil Rights to greatly expand federal powers including the Interstate Commerce Laws, privacy restrictions and economic control over business. This has placed minorities into a position where mainstream America sees the protection of minority rights as hand in hand with the denial of their own individual freedom and liberties.

In no way am I asserting that the denial of basic rights to American Blacks was appropriate. However, some of the mechanisms by which those rights were delivered opened the door for concentrated private interest operating through the institution of government to steal American freedom and wealth.