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The recent legal actions involving the Southern Poverty Law Center only sharpen a truth some of us have witnessed for decades: Too many institutions have turned civil rights suffering into a business model.
Let me be clear. The cause of civil rights remains one of the noblest defenses of human dignity in American history. But the movement has, more often than we admit, been commodified. What began as a mission rooted in sacrifice has, in some quarters, hardened into an industry rooted in exploitation. When the suffering of a people becomes a fundraising hook, the incentive shifts from solving problems to sustaining grievances.
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