Posted on 01/25/2016 1:57:46 PM PST by jazusamo
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood.
The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. That assumption carries great weight in far more important things than Academy Awards and in places more important than Hollywood, including the Supreme Court of the United States.
In an earlier era, the groupthink assumption was that groups that did not succeed as often, or as well, were genetically inferior. But is our current groupthink assumption based on any more hard evidence?
Having spent decades researching racial and ethnic groups around the world, I have never yet found a country in which all groups -- or even most groups -- are even roughly equally represented in most endeavors.
Nor have I been the only one with that experience. The great French historian Fernand Braudel said, "In no society have all regions and all parts of the population developed equally." A study of military forces around the world failed to find a single one in which in which the ethnic makeup of the military was the same as that of the society.
My own favorite example of unrepresentativeness, however, is right at home. Having watched National Football League games for more than 50 years, I have seen hundreds of black players score touchdowns, but I have never seen one black player kick the extra point.
What are we to conclude from this? Do those who believe in genetics think that blacks are just genetically incapable of kicking a football?
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because he denied the Donald once? He has two more to catch up with Peter.
I agree, and when he speaks he thoroughly enjoys it and has a good sense of humor.
Like many, I was disappointed in Sowell recently but it wasn't the first time.
I used to work with a bunch of guys who called everybody uncle. Uncle Joe, Uncle Bob, whatever your name was got preceded with the word uncle. It was all in good taste and fun and never meant to disrespect anyone.
Similarly, I've always thought of Thomas Sowell that way. No disrespect. No implications beyond the enduring intellect of man my senior who I've been reading and following for Lord knows how long.
Like that Uncle you see on holidays or read on Sundays, Thomas Sowell is always a person I listen to. Sometimes we don't agree, but I always hear him out first and give it some thought. He deserves that kind of respect from me anyway.
So do I :)
The late, great, Reggie Roby was a great punter in the NFL and earlier at Iowa, where I well remember him. And he happened to be black. I’m not sure he still has the career punting average record, but he set it at the time. IIRC, had he hit his final punt two yards longer he’d have averaged 50 yards per punt over four years. Alas our gunners were too slow to cover his long kicks so he net wasn’t that good. But it sure was fun when he’d boot one 20 yards over the coverage. He didn’t hit them as far in the pros as they finally got him to kick for hang time rather than distance, but he did well enough to make all pro. He placekicked in HS at Waterloo, IA, and tried that some in college, but wasn’t accurate enough to keep that job in spite of having the strongest leg anywhere. But I did see him kick some extra points and thus have seen a black kid do that.
What happened? Did you become more stupid?
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I would put the removal of Confederate statues and place names, and the banning of the Confederate flag right up there with it -- and with the Muzzies' destruction of monasteries and anything else Christian.
I have yet to see how my diminishing of another elevates me...
Cool, one and done... No thinking required...
Thanks, I don’t recall Reggie Roby but I see he had a very successful career and was a bid guy, I didn’t specify but I was referring to place kickers.
Yep, those are ridiculous also.
My own stupid mode just kicked in...
And how about if they roll back their numbers on welfare and increase their numbers in the workforce?
Not gonna read you this time, sir. You disappointed me.
(Seen on instapundit.com, originally posted somewhere other than that.)
No, but you Cuckservatives kept thinking we conservatives would continue running up to kick a football again and again forever no matter how many times the GOP-e pulled it away from us.
I'll answer that one.
You know, that came suspiciously close to a back-handed admission that "they all look like to you" /sarc>
...but not Obama. His ears are too big.
Sowell has three things in excess as far as the Typical Trump supporter is concerned:
IQ points
Conservative credentials
Melanin
Hank
I totally forgive Sowell for not backing Trump...
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