© 2016 Jim Spence - Consider the turmoil in Milwaukee in recent weeks. A black
criminal pointed a stolen gun at a black policeman, and got shot by that black
policeman, who was protecting a black neighborhood. So the residents of that
neighborhood rioted and burned down their own neighborhood, because black lives
matter. Nobody in the Democratic Party leadership that the national news media follows, pointed out the
stupidity of this situation.
America has evolved and finds itself in a very scary place on race relations. Thomas Sowell distills the evolution of how America is now being encouraged to deal with the social relics once known as prejudice and discrimination:
America has evolved and finds itself in a very scary place on race relations. Thomas Sowell distills the evolution of how America is now being encouraged to deal with the social relics once known as prejudice and discrimination:
“If you have always
believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same
standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal
25 years ago and a racist today.”
That’s right. If you call for everyone to be judged by the
same standards, the hallmark of the Civil Rights movement, you are now a
racist.
Consider how urban areas have turned into cesspools. Still,
black Democrats love to trot out slavery, which was outlawed one hundred sixty-three
years ago as the primary reason. They also infer that slavery is the reason why law enforcement should treat crime
infested areas differently and blame society for the behaviors of criminals.
Sowell teaches us that human bondage is not unique to the black experience. He has
this to say about slavery:
Thomas Sowell |
“It takes no more
research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the
incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western
Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of
Africans enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa,
not to mention the vast numbers of Europeans also enslaved in centuries past in
the Islamic world and within Europe itself. At least a million Europeans were
enslaved by North African pirates alone from 1500 to 1800, and some Europeans
slaves were still being sold on the auction blocks in the Egypt, years after
the Emancipation Proclamation freed blacks in the United States.”
And Sowell has spoken about the absurdity of preferential
treatment for any group at great lengths. Here is a quote that encapsulates his
wisdom on the subject:
“However much history
may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can
apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may
be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged
than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are
as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.”
It would seem that according to Sowell we cannot end
discrimination by using discrimination. He also provides warnings on the
mindsets of those who are not treated the same as everyone else:
“When people get used
to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
And perhaps most important of all, Thomas Sowell identifies
the “incentives” that cause people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to prefer
to blame “society” for the crimes committed by black criminals rather than
blaming the criminals themselves.
“To believe in
personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the
anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated
unfairly by society.”
Sowell sums up the consequences of buying in to the con job
perpetrated on America by Democrats when they falsely claim that more
government is the solution to poverty.
“The fatal attraction
of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others
without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were
no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.”