An excellent short column from the inestimable Thomas Sowell. An excerpt: ....Many in the media and among the intelligentsia cherish the romantic tale of an us against them struggle of beleaguered ghetto blacks defending themselves against the aggression of white policemen. The gullible include both whites who dont know what they are talking about and blacks who dont know what they are talking about either, because they never grew up in a ghetto. Among the latter are the President of the United States and his Attorney General. Such people readily buy the story that ghetto social problems today -- from children being raised without a father to runaway rates of murder -- are a legacy of slavery, even though such social problems were nowhere near as severe in the first half of the 20th century as they became in the second half. You would be hard pressed to name just five examples from the first half of the 20th century of the kinds of ghetto riots that have raged in more than a hundred cities during the second half. Such riots are a legacy of the social degeneracy of our times. Calling this social degeneracy a legacy of slavery is not just an excuse for those who engage in it, it is an excuse for the ideology of the intelligentsia behind the social policies that promoted this degeneracy. Let those who have laid a guilt trip on people in our times, for evils done by other people in past centuries, at least face their own responsibility for the evil consequences of their own notions and policies. If they wont do it, then the rest of us need to stop listening gullibly to what they are saying. The race card is nothing to play with. It can ruin us all. realclearpolitics/articles/2014/12/23/whos_responsible_125043.html
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:20:10 +0000
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