While they have achieved some notoriety among conservatives and SOME well educated blacks (who consider them traitors) for the quality of their work and outstanding accomplishments, it is pitifully meager among the black population who largely ignores them as you rightly pointed out, Wuli. They were still pretty young, when I first discovered them. Now, they have lived a life time.
I was wondering just a few days ago, how they must feel that a lifetime's worth of excellent work has been so ignored by the African American population, and how they found the courage, stamina and fortitude to keep going. It is impossible to put into words the tremendous admiration I feel for them. They are heroes in every sense of the word.
No, Wuli, I don't expect Gwen will include Michael Steele, and other black politicians like him in her book. But perhaps there is a black conservative of current or future notoriety who will.
It is an absolute shame more African-American people have not come to look up to them and listen to them, they have so much more to offer than the Jackson’s, Sharpton’s and Wright’s.
Like you say, both are to be admired for not only their intelligence but their perseverance.
What is amazing to me, as a conservative, is how racist liberals actually are and how their only defense against a man like Sowell is that he’s, to them, some kind of “Oreo” (black on the outside, white on the inside).
It also amazes me that we are told by liberals that “blacks” need someone like Obama in order to “have someone to look up to”, yet they don’t want blacks to “look up to Sowell”, and further, you and I look up to Sowell, but we are racist?
Communication today is ruled by doublespeak.