“The most fundamental problem with affirmative action is that it is based on the premise that the way to help the less fortunate is to lower standards for them.”
- Thomas Sowell
Buckley asks Sowell why most black leaders ignore his kind of analysis.
Sowell’s answer is blunt:
They need political solutions to stay relevant as leaders — and victimization is the easiest explanation for failure.
Then he drops the killer line: “Name me three Japanese American leaders.” No one can. Yet Japanese Americans advanced anyway.
Leadership isn’t what moves groups forward. Skills and culture do.
Thomas Sowell on the absurdity of expecting equal outcomes in a society where people differ in countless ways:
“Trying to explain inequality is like trying to explain why people don’t flap their arms and fly. There was never any reason to expect people to fly and there was never any reason to expect people’s performances to be equal, when there are innumerable influences at work differently for each individual and group.”
A young black man told Sowell he once wanted to be an Air Force pilot — then decided “the white man isn’t going to let a black man become a pilot.” This was decades after the Tuskegee Airmen.
Hopelessness is not an accident. Sowell says it is one of the main products of the race industry. It has to be produced.
His advice to a young Thomas Sowell watching today: stay away from the race-hustlers. Equip yourself with skills other people are willing to pay for. Same as anyone else.
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“The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
The heavens declare His righteousness, And all the peoples see His glory.
Let all be put to shame who serve carved images, Who boast of idols. Worship Him, all you gods.
Zion hears and is glad, And the daughters of Judah rejoice Because of Your judgments, O Lord.
For You, Lord, are most high above all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.”
Psalm 97: 5-9 (NKJV).
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Catholic nurse Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo was ordered by a New York hospital to assist in an abortion in 2009. She refused on religious grounds—even when threatened with losing her job. Her courageous stand eventually helped force the hospital to change its policy.
No @MarkRuffalo, you are an avowed Jew-hater masquerading it under the enlightened cloak of progressivism. You are a lobotomized imbecile. You know nothing. Every single position that you take is on the wrong side of moral clarity. You are a limousine socialist who draws his moral code from another acting degenerate, Javier Bardem.
A student stands up in a Stanford lecture hall in 1979 and calls poverty a market failure. He is calm, he is prepared, and he has just handed the man on stage the exact opening he wanted.
What happens next was clipped, titled, and watched 700 thousand times. Almost nobody has seen the hour it came out of.
The exchange is worth studying with the sound off. The student is arguing a position. The professor is doing something else entirely, and he does it before answering anything.
He does not dispute the facts. He accepts them, then asks 1 question about a word the student used without defining it, and the whole argument reorganises around that word.
That move is the transferable part, and it has nothing to do with economics. Find the moment he decides which word to isolate, because everything after that is already decided.
“Among those who turned against slavery in the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and other American leaders. You could research all of 18th-century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any comparable rejection of slavery there.”
— Thomas Sowell