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This is a story of a man that proclaims ‘white privilege is a myth’. Let’s hear his story.
He started with no great advantage in a poor neighborhood. He believed Marxism was best for our country. He left school at the age of 16 and took a menial dead-end job delivering messages. He had two good eyes, and he watched how things worked. He would see how the rich parts of New York lived and then the tenements in poverty. Surely Marxism was a better way!
For one year eleven months and five days he was a United States Marine! Following the short stint in the military he went back to school. He went to Harvard University, got a Masters at Columbia, and a Doctorate in Chicago, and was still a devout Marxist!
During his summer vacation, he got a job at the U.S. Dept of Labor. There he got to see how the government’s goodwill sometimes went wrong. He began to see everyone seemed to have an angle. There did not seem to be a pure effort to solve anything.
He noticed when the Dept of Labor jacked up the minimum wage in Puerto Rico, the results were many Puerto Ricans lost their jobs! But the Dept of Labor seemed to be blind to that. Maybe not blind, as also one third of the government jobs depended on administering the minimum wage laws! So, their government jobs were at stake if there was no minimum wage!
Now he has lost faith in Marxism and government, in general! Many years later, he wrote in one of his dozen books, ‘The constrained vision ‘sees the evils of the World as deriving from the limited and unhappy choices available, given the inherent moral and intellectual limitations of human beings.’
What a mouthful, from a 16-year-old dropout! Can you see this mans ‘white privilege’ showing through? Did he make it, strictly because of the color of his skin? Today he still streams to Millions of viewers (many fans, really), about unintended consequences when we ‘try’ to ‘fix’ a problem.
Today, he spouts, ‘the Myths of Economic Inequality’, and this blockbuster rebuttal to a New York Times journalist remarking that the gaps in wealth and educational achievement between blacks and whites is due to the lingering effects of slavery.
Our man of privilege wrote: If we wanted to be serious about the evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence the ‘legacy of slavery’ with hard evidence of the ‘legacy of liberals’.
One problem though. Our man of white privilege, is, not white! Whaaat? Nope he is black. And now it is time, in the great tradition of Paul Harvey, (if you don’t know who that is, google him), for ‘the rest of the story’. This is the life of Thomas Sowell, one of the least political and best educated men in the World!
His ability to stand back and see the ‘big picture’ has awakened Millions of viewers all over the World. Understanding the unintended consequences of trying to fix everything especially using a divisive government, (more often than not trying to keep their own jobs at everyone else’s expense), is part of the problem, not the solution. The real solution will come from men like Thomas, and people that learn from them.
‘nuff said.
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