Sowell: It's Not Black History Month, It's Sins of White People Month

www.townhall.com | Feb. 26, 2002 | Dr. Thomas Sowell

[Cuttnhorse]

What a great quotation! When I first read it, I thought Washington was describing Jesse Jackson.

[homeschool mama]

It *is* a great quote! I think his wise words stand, especially for those today who desire to keep the victimization alive.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Oh, no offense meant. As for the native Americans it is a well known practice. People were considered the pilages of war. I don't have any specific link, but will look. I too have Indian heritage. Notice I do not accept the label Native American. They were hardly being "Americans" while they were scalping the colonists for pay by the brits. I call them "the native people who where here before the colonists" They had little to nothing to do with the formation of this country.

There were only few non-violent Indian tribes. Slavery and War over terrritory were a way a life.

So now we are supposed to feel bad because the colonists were better prepared for war than they were. Remember Indians too had to come from some place else and carve themselves into the land now called America. They did not sprout up out of the land here.

As much as I want to believe in the non-violent , peacful religion of the Indians, a good deal of it is liberal propagada.

Historicaly, if people could find others to enslave, they would. Not that I agree with it, I just believe it is human nature.

[mrustow]

Did someone say Booker T. Washington?!

"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. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

Booker T. Washington 1911

Thanks for posting that quote. The man expressed the most profound insights with such amazing simplicity, that some "sophisti-cats" sought to portray him as simple-minded. As far as they were concerned, deep thoughts required indecipherable sentences.

[homeschool mama]

**Thanks for posting that quote. The man expressed the most profound insights with such amazing simplicity, that some "sophisti-cats" sought to portray him as simple-minded. As far as they were concerned, deep thoughts required indecipherable sentences.**

You're quite welcome :o)

The most difficult of concepts can be understood with the most simple of explanations. Booker T did just that...again and again.

[Demidog]

If this is fair game, then what I'd like to see is an American Indian history month where we tell blacks in this country that they are damn lucky they weren't Cherokee like my ancestors or Lakota or Apache. The U.S. committed genocide against the Indians and frankly I'd rather have had my folks be black and slaves and alive to tell about it.

And in any event, it wasn't ALL white men that are to blame for these acts. There is plenty of blame to go around. At some point you shut the hell up and try and get on with your life rather than sit on your butt like a loser and whine about how unfair life has been. Here's a clue: Life is not fair and it has never been fair and it will never be fair.

[VinnyTex]

I'll see ya this Saturday... For sure!!!

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What about it Dog...

[Demidog]

That'd be cool man. That's right down the street from me.

[Toddsterpatriot]

I'd like to see is an American Indian history month where we tell blacks in this country that they are damn lucky they weren't Cherokee like my ancestors or Lakota or Apache. The U.S. committed genocide against the Indians and frankly I'd rather have had my folks be black and slaves and alive to tell about it.

Yeah, damn white men. Look what I found:

Starved Rock is an erosional remnant of St. Peter Sandstone that forms a high terrace in the Illinois Valley. the rock is an historic site of a successful siege against the Illini Indians, resulting in the starvation and demise of the entire tribe.

Ooops, the Illini were wiped out by other Indian tribes. And I thought they were all peaceful people living as one with nature.

[Demidog]

You didn't read the rest of my post did you.....funny.

[Toddsterpatriot]

I'm sorry, I'm taking my cue from you.

[Demidog]

More proof that you didn't read the rest of the post.

[Toddsterpatriot]

More proof that you didn't read the rest of the post.

My comment isn't limited to your one post.

[One4Indictment]

Why can't this great American, Mr. Sowell, be the dominant voice of black American today, instead of evil divisive men like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

[Demidog]

Your comment has no relationship to what I believe and is assanine. Hope that helps.

[7thson]

No you did not make sense. White Americans did not institute slavery. Slavery was practiced and instituted long before any European ever set foot on the New World.

[Inkie]

And the Sudanese still have it.