Freedom Will Conquer Racism and Sexism: The 'Civil Rights ACT' is Damaging Everyone in Our Country. Especially Blacks and Women

A vigorous debate is taking place in our country over affirmative action, but the author argues that this is not the proper debate. The proper debate, he says, should be eliminating the Civil Rights Act in its entirety. The Act has turned out to be vastly different from what was promised by our leaders in 1964. The book argues that this story is about the betrayal of America, about a small group of the elite, many of whom acted in good faith, but had no confidence in the people. The author says the elite believe we are not capable of solving our own problems, and believe that the elite are needed to guide and rule the rest of us.

J. Edward Pawlick was born in 1927 in the suburban town of South Orange, New Jersey. After graduating from high school during World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. At the end of the war, he matriculated at Williams College where he majored in history and was Managing Editor of the college newspaper and President of the College News Bureau. Having always been interested in agriculture, he then lived on a New Hampshire farm and sold Fuller Brushes door- to-door in order to earn enough money to study at the University of New Hampshire, where he received a BS in Animal Husbandry in 1952. While working on a livestock farm in New Jersey, he declined a commission in the U.S. Navy because it would have been for a three year period and was drafted into the Army and sent as an infantryman to Korea. However, the war ended just as he arrived there in 1953 and he was assigned to write stories for the Army newspaper, Stars and Stripes. After arriving back home, he worked as an Assistant County Agricultural Extension Agent for Cornell University, during which he taught active, working farmers. When the Extension Service split with the New York Farm Bureau, he was one of three Agents chosen to develop the Farm Bureau, becoming director of Public Relations a year later.

At the age of 30, he realized he was not getting any closer to the goal of owning his own farm, so he decided to go to law school. Entering the Law School at George Washington University in 1957, he worked in the daytime and attended school five nights a week, winter and summer. Because he was at the top of his class, he was invited to transfer to Yale Law School, which he did in September 1958. Although he did very well at Yale also, it became apparent that he would not receive any financial aid and would be heavily in debt upon graduation, so he returned to George Washington, graduating in 1960 and marrying the same year.

He then moved to the heart of the farming community in Pennsylvania Dutch country in York, Pennsylvania, where in addition to practicing law, he was an elected member of the autonomous city school board with 10,000 pupils, solicitor for the sheriff of York County, part- time Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University and founder and chairman of a "Section" of the Pennsylvania Bar Association on Legal Problems of the Agricultural Community. He had also acquired a 120 acre working farm.

In 1972, he became the sole parent of his four children, ages 10, 8, 6 and 4. Because he did not want them to be raised by nannies, he could no longer practice law, so he moved to Massachusetts and founded the first of his Lawyers Weekly newspapers in his home. When he sold his company in 1997, he was publishing newspapers in seven states and advising 150,000 lawyers about opinions from their state legislatures. He also published a national newspaper for lawyers which reported on the legislation and opinions from Congress and the federal courts. When the national newspaper was started in 1993, both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times wrote feature stories about it. Stories from his publications have been reported on the front page of USA Today, as well as on ABC World News Tonight and Good Morning, America.

He has three daughters, who are a Clinical Psychologist with a Ph.D., a lawyer, and the youngest is in sales. His son lives in New Zealand with his wife. During his entire working career, Pawlick has always been involved in journalism and writing. He now lives on a 40 acre "farm" outside Boston "with a few cows and other animals."