Just what is it that I don't get? Then, I'll be able to better speak to what it is YOU don't get.
That said, I also wanted to make sure you saw another example of Sowell's excellent reasoning.
Sowell's reasoning is excellent most of the time but there are a few flaws in this essay:
First of all, the premise of the essay is really inaccurate- if BHM were about the sins of white people, then the white sinners would be highlighted, not the black person who overcame racism and whatever else to be worthy of mention during BHM. To me, the theme panders to what the likes of you want to hear.
Second, BHM is about achievements, not excuses. The people typically honored during BHM refused to accept one excuse or another as to why they couldn't achieve.
Third, the notion that BHM means not knowing about anyone else's history is completely and totally erroneous. What do you think kids study the rest of the year? Hate to dissapoint you, but yours truly got pretty much all "A's" in American History and World History, and I'm old enough to have studied the non-PC version of those in school.
Tell me again- what is it that I don't seem to get?
I'd be turning soil that had already been plowed on other threads, and you know it. As long as you, and the race hustlers who want to keep people as victims, have the notion that something as ridiculous as bhm is for MY benefit, solutions to the divisions in this country are impossible.
The gap between what you and I believe, on issues of race, is far too wide.