Thomas Sowell is a black conservative, former professor at Cornell among other universities and now 90 years old. He's extremely critical of Obama and particularly of white liberals starting from 50 years past in the way they've addressed poverty including affirmative action programs for creating a lot of problems for poor ghetto blacks. I've listened to a number of his podcasts recently. Someone else is doing the talking on this thirteen and a half minute video. To say that this podcast and others from him have been mind blowing is an understatement. WEB DuBois mentioned near the beginning of this video was a prominent black intellectual from the 19th century.
The Origin of Black American Gangster Culture | Thomas Sowell - YouTube
In this talk, near the end, he talks about the success rate of blacks from the West Indies in New York who faced the same racism, who before any affirmative action programs attained a lot of success economically and politically. Excuses about racism and slavery (Carribean blacks were also enslaved) for the plight of blacks in the ghetto aren't the facts. Very unfortunately, it's a self-perpetuating culture of violence and self-created problems now glorified by hip hop culture. Another podcast mentions how Northern blacks had a very different culture and were integrated with their white neighbors in Chicago until the black migration from the South after World War II. Northern blacks who had been there generations didn't like the culture of Southern blacks, and most ended up in ghettos unfortunately. Sowell cites the statistics and knows the history. He's worth checking out.
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