Posted on 05/26/2008 9:07:54 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sowell, as usual, nails it. His reward for clear thinking? Being called an “Uncle Tom” by the left...
My best English teacher in junior high...was a Black, handicapped woman.....never, ever gave a thought about her color.....This was about 1963/64......
Sowell, as usual, hits it outta the park!!!
Another great Sowell essay.
Thanks again for the ping jazusamo. I always enjoy reading Dr. Sowell.
He’s always right.
WOW. He is so dead right on! THIS is one of the two men who happen to be black that I would cast my POTUS vote for in a heartbeat! Or sooner! There are some areas where I am not in complete accord with him, but 99.9999% of the time I think him dead on the money!
Bravo.
My father and grandfather had a woman vice president for many years before it became fashionable. She was paid as much as any male vp.
They also implemented the four day work week a long time before it was in vogue.
And my grandfather was one of the first to invest many years ago in a now very successful corporation that was started by a woman.
They didn’t have to be forced to do anything. They found the best people for the job and implemented the best policies for their company.
Obama wants to have a national discussion about race. I say we start with this column.
This succinctly explains the essential truth of Ackbar Hussein and Michelle Insane for liberals. If they could have elected "the" Convicted Liar or "the" Shakedown Artist president that would have been fine. To libs, africanhyphenamericans are interchangeable.
What Sowell doesn't point out, but I'm sure he knows, is that the ahyphena mascots on college campi bring taxpayer dollars in the form of grants & tuition to the college coffers. It isn't important that they succeed, only that they bring the money. This is, in part, why Eastern Michigan University went thru such contortions last year when it was determined that an ahyphena "student" had murdered and sexually assaulted a white coed. Thank God their attempts at coverup didn't succeed and the creep went up for life.
Barry O is the mascot of the Dems. He parrots every bad idea they've ever had...
Wow! Great essay!
I dunno. I went to a collegiate job fair at my company. We interviewed about sixteen kids who were selected from on-campus interviews. The stated goal was to make offers to the two best qualified. Everyone agreed on the best qualified, a kid who wrote a ponytail and sneakers to the interview. There was no clear second place, but several strong candidates.
There was a kid from Tuskeegee Institute who, in my mind was the most personable and least qualified. The pressure to make him an offer was palable. There was a black woman from HR who more or less implied that unless he was manifestly unqualified we had to choose him and an Asian woman middle-level manager who agreed that kids from Tuskeegee were long on personality and short skills, but what the hey, hire them and they might work out.
I was uncomfortable and wouldn't relent. (They never asked me back. I was standing on principle, race played no part in my decision.)
For one thing, the job we were hiring for was systems engineer. Normally, people right out of school make terrible systems engineers. You need to do something specific, e. g., antenna design, signal processing, et al. before you work on the big picture. He might be relegated to a role of little more than typist or technician, get discouraged and never blossom. If we were hiring someone for test engineering or reliability, a more limited role where you more or less learn on the job, I might have been more flexible, but hiring a kid in over his head doesn't do him any favors. But you get to check an affirmative action box. Tom Sowell would understand.
The left treats blacks with no more respect than they do any other “mascot”.
They cheer when they see them, but relegate them to the sidelines when the real players come on the field.
Sowell. National treasure.
It’s liberals like Algore who now use Global Warming as an excuse for denying the poor and afflicted in Africa the opportunities tied to industrialization and mechanization. Heaven forbid that these poor people get electricity to pump and purify water when they are perfectly capable of manually running the pumps while avoiding the “carbon footprint” associated with electricity. Unbelievable.
Agreed...Though Dr. Sowell didn't name Barry, which he hasn't been bashful to do in previous columns, I had the impression after reading this column that Barry was his reason behind it.
Now, how can you tell the color of a person from their resume? I'll omit any racial stereotypical humor.
My wife's brilliant solution to the problem was to keep the resumes that she wanted, and call the rest of the candidates "unqualified". Worked perfectly.
And, curiously enough, the lady she hired...the most qualified person...was African-American. Amazing what people will accomplish when bureaucracy is taken out of the way.
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