Posted on 08/12/2010 10:54:55 PM PDT by jazusamo
” Nearly half the pilots in the Malaysia’s air force were from the Chinese minority, rather than the Malay majority “
LOL....The most successful people in Malaysia are the Chinese and the transplants from india. The Malays (bumiputeras” are very nice people, but they are almost inherently not ambitious. As one who lived there and did business there, I can attest to this.
Asians are also better at mathematics than us honkys. M.I.T. would be almost 100% asian, if they went by merit alone.
Life isn’t equal, and neither is talent. Sowell can live with it, and I can too.
Well said...Yes, Sowell can live with it and is not hesitant to speak out about it.
Wow.
Few people speak as frankly about racial issues as Dr. Sowell.
Most of us have had enough of quotas and the concept of equal outcome. That is, equal opportunity is not enough; we should expect equal success in each area of life as well.
Racism is a terrible thing, but it is not the cause of all inequalities, as Sowell astutely points out.
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Tom is about as close to being a perfect American as I can conjure up. I may get a chance to meet him this fall, as my attorney in Palo Alto is a good frind of his. If I am that fortunate, I will endeavor to post the conversation as best I can.
Thanks for the Ping.
Yes you can....especially if you are devoid of morals or ethics, or a thug or sociopath like Obama ;-)
LOL - I never thought of that. But I do have one point of correction. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers once had Donald Igwebuike (below), to my knowledge the only black place kicker in NFL history - unless the late Reggie Roby did it.
Where are the 4'2" Asian women basketball players?
Wasicsm!!!!!!!!
Everything he writes is a keeper, isn’t it?
thanks jaz...simple truths from the Dr...
The bean-counters are everywhere, pushing the idea that differences show injustices committed by society.
The article reminds me of a statistics course I took. For the introductory lecture the professor talked about the misuse of statistics, specifically disease “hot spots”; areas where a disease is more common than in other places. He dropped a large handful of beans on his desk – they didn’t evenly scatter but had several clusters; “hot spots”. He pointed out that some clusters were just random, not the result of any problems.
The bean counters in the article take “All men are created equal” to the absurd. Yes, all men are created equal under the law. There it ends. Genetics plays a part and I firmly believe culture plays an even bigger role.
The “injustice” noted in the article are created by the culture of the people involved, not by society at large. Who are the heroes of the NFL? Quarterbacks and running backs, not place kickers. Why the imbalance in engineering schools? Asian kids seem to be more interested in actually producing things, white kids seem more interested in high pay areas like money management and business administration.
Definition: RACIST - anyone who disagrees with Liberal Democrat Dogma.
“Tom is about as close to being a perfect American as I can conjure up.”
Absolutely! As he says, he was born with four strikes against him: black, poor, in the South and during the Depression. Yet he’s the essence of the American dream and gives the lie to everything the race baiters are saying.
Reading Dr. Sowell’s Article Today had me laughing Out Loud and shaking my head at the same time.
Almost gave myself a seizure. @:-P
I love you, Dr. Sowell! :)
I certainly hope you do get to meet Dr. Sowell and will appreciate you posting about it here, he is a great American.
So very true, onyx. So simple a statement but I never thought of it that way. :)
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