Sowell: Race-Hustling Results

Some people try to explain why Asians, and Asian-Americans, succeed so well in education and in the economy by some special characteristics that they have. That may be true, but their success may also be due to what they do not have — namely "leaders" who tell them that the deck is so stacked against them that they cannot rise, or at least not without depending on "leaders." Such "leaders" are like the people who said that the laws of aerodynamics showed that the bumblebee cannot fly.

Teaching people they're victims is great for political control - but very bad for the person who buys the line... Sowell has nailed it one more time.

Another piece of brilliance by Sowell…

Why doesn’t the main stream media consult HIM when they need “the black perspective” instead of lunatics like Sharpton and Jackson

From Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech at the Sorbonne:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds
. . . and that, IMHO, defines conservatism vs “liberalism.”
A journalist is a talker, not a doer, and the easiest way to make talk seem important is to criticize the people and institutions upon whom the public depends. That places a propaganda wind at the back of the “leaders” of whom Sowell complains. The natural tendency of the journalist to second guess is amplified by the fact that journalists all “meet together,” virtually via the medium of the wire services - and Adam Smith tells us what to expect of that:

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (Book I, Ch 10)
The net effect is, as my tagline puts it, “Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.

‘”leaders” who tell them that the deck is so stacked against them that they cannot rise’

My fear is that oriental people will one day gain that. They are apparently starting to buy the commie line that the white US hates them and is bigoted against them, hence you must vote Dem. And someday, they may be wallowing in victimhood also if they go down the Dem path.

Don’t know all the stats, but there was a solid majority for Uhbama last out. I hope that was just a blip.

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