Posted on 10/21/2013 12:47:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
Years ago, someone said that, according to the laws of aerodynamics, bumblebees cannot fly. But the bumblebees, not knowing the laws of aerodynamics, go ahead and fly anyway.
Something like that happens among people. There have been many ponderous academic writings and dour editorials in the mainstream media, lamenting that most people born poor cannot rise in American society any more. Meanwhile, many poor immigrants arrive here from various parts of Asia, and rise on up the ladder anyway.
Often these Asian immigrants arrive not only with very little money, but also very little knowledge of English. They start out working at low-paid jobs but working so many hours, often at more than one job, that they are able to put a little money aside.
After a few years, they have enough money to open some little shop, where they still work long hours, and still save their money, so that they can afford to send their children to college. Meanwhile, these children know that their parents not only expect, but demand, that they make good grades.
Some people try to explain why Asians, and Asian-Americans, succeed so well in education and in the economy by some special characteristics that they have. That may be true, but their success may also be due to what they do not have — namely "leaders" who tell them that the deck is so stacked against them that they cannot rise, or at least not without depending on "leaders."
Such "leaders" are like the people who said that the laws of aerodynamics showed that the bumblebee cannot fly. Those who have believed such "leaders" have in fact stayed grounded, unlike the bumblebees.
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Love Mr. Sowell. Great article as always and I didn’t know this: “Years ago, someone said that, according to the laws of aerodynamics, bumblebees cannot fly.”. Now I’ve got to go find out about this. :p
Ha...I can’t verify that it’s true but I read or heard that also some years back. :-)
These are the same people who claim that illegal immigrants aren’t breaking our laws.
Democrats can’t think ... it’s just aerodynamically impossible.
Dr. Sowell sees the symptom, as a lot of us do.
What I call ‘Palestinian-ization’ of America - to create such hopelessness that some rather destroy because there is absolutely no future for them (in their minds).
But no one can solve the problem for them, if they don’t want to do it themselves.
Another piece of brilliance by Sowell...
Why doesn’t the main stream media consult HIM when they need “the black perspective” instead of lunatics like Sharpton and Jackson
I hear you...The liberal MSM evidently stick with race hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson because their antics sell more than the sound wisdom of Dr. Sowell. It’s for sure the entitlement crowd don’t want to hear from him, they ignore him.
LOL! He’s got his downtown threads on in the big city, the race hustling rip-off artist looks like he’s ready to do business.
Enter it in the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade.
LOL!!!
My reasoning has always been that the MSM, along with the ruling elite, are racists. They also want white middle-class Americans to mistakenly assume that all blacks are dishonest like Sharpton and Jackson, so for 50 years they have kept the articulate conservative blacks off the air.
Thank you for the ping.
Race hustlers are the offal in our soup.
May they RIH for the death, misery, and destruction they cause.
You have a firm second on that from me, TOL.
Thank you, Jaz.
Here’s a bump!
Hal King and I were in USAF pilot training class 70-02. Hal’s dad - Lt. Col Haldane King - was a Tuskegee Airman. Col King passed away this summer at age 91. RIP
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