Silly letters [Thomas Sowell ]

http://www.townhall.com/ ^ | October 1, 2003 | Thomas Sowell

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Most of the letters and e-mails I receive are a pleasure to read and my only regret is that I cannot answer even one-tenth of them. However, there are certain e-mails and letters that repeat the same fallacies again and again. Let me try to answer one of those fallacies now, once and for all.

One of the silly things that gets said repeatedly is that I should not be against affirmative action because I have myself benefitted from it.

Think about it: I am 73 years old. There was no affirmative action when I went to college -- or to graduate school, for that matter. There wasn't even a Civil Rights Act of 1964 when I began my academic career in 1962.

Moreover, there is nothing that I have accomplished in my education or my career that wasn't accomplished by other blacks before me -- and long before affirmative action. Getting a degree from Harvard? The first black man graduated from Harvard in 1870.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Is there a page where i can find all the places were not allowed to show or post full articles from i cannot find one !

[Support Free Republic]

Aww man! Enough of the fundraiser posts!!!

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[Clara Lou]

Doncha love Sowell?

[alisasny]

I keep hearing the libs say the same affirmative action things about Clarance Thomas and Colin Powell.

The entire left is ignorant on just about everything.

[inPhase]

Bravo to another great Tom.

Sowell shows that affirmative action is a destructive ruse. Enjoy reading his ideas, always something new, added thought.

[Joe Bonforte]

I have a half dozen Sowell books, but I did not realize he was that old. I thought he was in his fifties, not his seventies.

Come to FR - learn something new every day...

[Tax-chick]

Greatest living American thinker BTTT!

Bad news about his age, though ... he'd better be exercising and drinking plenty of red wine, because there's no substitute for Sowell.

[StriperSniper]

Bad news about his age,

Yeah! I had no clue he was that old. He looks and sounds so much younger.

[kylaka]

I have one of his latest works "Economics" which has a fairly current picture of him. I would have guessed him to be in his late 50's too.

[RJL]

I have a half dozen Sowell books, but I did not realize he was that old. I thought he was in his fifties, not his seventies.

I too thought Thomas was in his fifties. Here’s to a long continued stream of good writing from Thomas.

[RightWingAtheist]

His brain has accumulated the wisdom and knowledge one would expect from having spent seventy-odd years mostly reading and thinking, and yet it remains as fresh and agile as that of a man forty years younger. Dr. Sowell is a true intellectual treasure.