Posted on 06/27/2020 3:54:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
I’m going to take this opportunity to recommend his:
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
https://smile.amazon.com/Vision-Anointed-Self-Congratulation-Social-Policy/dp/046508995X
The book is almost 25 years old, and still incredibly relevant and insightful.
Too bad they’re a minority of a minority.
There is no doubt ... Thomas Sowell is a great man, a great American. Influenced me in the early 1980s, and I have never looked back.
Walter Williams falls into that category too.
2 hours 19 minutes - well worth the time:
Youtube: THOMAS SOWELL - Black Rednecks and White Liberals | An Incredibly Insightful Perspective!
An excerpt from Thomas Sowell’s “Black Rednecks & White Liberals”.
Dr. Thomas Sowell is probably one of the most brilliant minds alive in America. In a series of long essays, It presents eye-opening insights into the historical development of the ghetto culture that is today wrongly seen as a unique black identity—a culture cheered on toward self-destruction by white liberals who consider themselves “friends” of blacks. This essay titled “The Real History of Slavery” presents a jolting re-examination of that tragic institution and the narrow and distorted way it is too often seen today...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAf8XL2xQI
Thomas Sowell , Walter Williams bump
They’re about five sigma from the norm...
Bttt.
5.56mm
“A great tribute to Thomas Sowell by another great man Walter E. Williams.”
That’s a fact.
In a culture that truly values intelligence these guys would be celebrities.
Hear, hear. Here’s to a much longer life for Dr. Sowell.
Or any other age, as well
b f l ..
Dr. Williams and Dr. Sowell are two of my favorite Americans. Sowell is probably the deepest thinker in America.
Oh wait, they are both black men so I’m supposed to hate them.
My daughters best friend is married to a black guy who’s also a cop. He’s a great young man. She wants to study op on race and race issues.
I’m pointing her toward Sowell and Williams, both of whom will give truthful answers.
Dr. Sowell is one of the 20th Century’s greatest thinkers IMHO. His ability to succinctly encapsulate and communicate an idea is remarkable. I just bought his book, Basic Economics and it’s fascinating.
I dread the day when I read of his obituary.
This adds to the snippets of Sowell's history that I knew...just bits.
Underappreciated??? By me??? Never.
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
- Booker T. Washington, historical black educator and Presidential advisor
BUMP for later viewing. Thanks for the link.
Required reading!
Basic Economics - A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Does this mean I have to sign up for utube premium, or whatever, so I can watch it in pieces?
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