Sowell: 'Friends' of blacks

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[Tax-chick]

Thomas Sowell is America's greatest living intellectual! Everyone go buy his books and read them!

[mlmr]

I do and I have. The man makes economics interesting. Just read his applied economics. Great read.

[End Times Sentinel]

C'mon Sowell, get with the liberal program!  Blacks are just our little pets.  Stop acting upity and get back to keepin' it real.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Fenris6]

"Blacks have, in effect, been adopted as mascots by many white liberals. Mascots serve to symbolize something for others but the actual well-being of the mascot himself is seldom a major concern. Blacks have long been used by the left to indict American society."

Thanks Mr. Sowell. Never forget that the Democrat Party needs its victims. They are parasites.

[Max Combined]

He hits the nail on the head!

[junta]

But without blacks how can poor Barb get her messiah fix?

[Tax-chick]

I think the schools should have a curriculum of nothing but math and Thomas Sowell.

[AmericanMade1776]

Sounds like Barbara Ehrenreich , has poor expectations for poor blacks and thinks they can not do better, that what they are doing.

[NCjim]

Reactions to Bill Cosby's recent criticisms of some counterproductive ghetto behavior patterns have ranged from applause from some in the black audience that heard him to a cheap attack from white liberal Barbara Ehrenreich in the New York Times. "Billionaire bashes poor blacks" is the way Ms. Ehrenreich puts it.

Poor Barbara doesn't get it, does she?

[tdadams]

In today's climate, too many teachers think they are doing black students a favor by feeding them grievances from the past and telling them how they are oppressed in the present -- and how their future is blocked by white racism. These are the kinds of friends who do more damage than enemies.

Man, isn't that the truth.

[17th Miss Regt]

But without blacks how can poor Barb get her messiah fix?

Even more appropriate is the following:

But without blacks how can poor Barb get her 'massah' fix?

[baseballmom]

He says it all.

If one stops to think about it, this article is not just for blacks. It's for all Americans, no matter their color or cultural background.

We've been enabling poor performance and bad behavior for too long. For the children, of course.

[17th Miss Regt]

Bingo! Liberals despise them as inferior, but regard them as useful for 'feeling good about themselves'.

[Our man in washington]

Agreed.

Too often, Sowell gets dismissed as "that black conservative." Those are two adjectives that apply to Sowell, but most of Sowell's work is not about race.

My journey from Marxism to conservatism took ten years, but the final step was reading Sowell's masterpiece "Knowledge and Decisions." Sowell writes a whole book on a basic point that so many forget: information is not free.

[50 Cal]

Yo, yo yo! Hizzle in the sizzil cuz!

[Area Freeper]

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[AmericanMade1776]

"Bingo! Liberals despise them as inferior, but regard them as useful for 'feeling good about themselves'."

It also makes the liberals non racist, to accept the fact that the poor blacks can not do any better, because they are poor AND black.

[viaveritasvita]

Great article. It's sickening how many blacks consider those of their own who are intelligent and conservative to be Uncle Toms. Highly insulting. They should be ashamed of themselves!

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[17th Miss Regt]

It also makes the liberals non racist, to accept the fact that the poor blacks can not do any better, because they are poor AND black.

On the other hand, if a conservative assumed that poor blacks can not do any better because they are poor and black, they would be roundly denounced as racists. Yes, yes, I know. Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, and all that...