sowell has gone off his rocker. these conservatives really want to have it both ways. first they praise reagan, then they produce idiotic arguments like this one. reagan engaged gorbachev and that helped prevent wwIII, now when Obama talks about engaging leaders in the middle east, it's somehow sacrilegious. what i find particularly appalling about his post is his disregard for the lives currently being lost in iraq and afghanistan. no. 9/11 was not a joke, nor are the casualties being levied from fighting this senseless war.
Sowell is basically on a crusade against Obama. He sees Obama as a fraud who utilized his "personal responsibility" and work ethic to get where he is, but then panders to "lazy" black people with his progressive social policies. In the end, he follows the same black neo-con formula,that black people can only rise up through hard work, which is not incorrect, but just like all the others, his argument is sullied by his total disregard for the inequities caused by structural racism in the U.S.
Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off. The nail in the coffin? Ya think?
Here's me going after Al. I didn't so much have a problem with him, as I had a problem with media acting like this dude was the go-to guy for everything black.
This was my first real story at time. I was writing for the Business section, a real change of direction for me. At any rate, it's about Wal-Mart's attempts to colonize the inner-city. As much as I enjoyed this piece, I mostly enjoyed going out to Chicago, which is a beautiful, beautiful city.
This a piece I did about the cops just outside our nation capitol, in Prince George's County, a few years back. I wanted to offer a counter to the dumb, conventional wisdom that if you paint your police force black, you could eradicate police brutality. In fact, Prince George's--one of the richest, blackest counties in the country--also had one of the most brutal police force's in the country.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
You say you know you really should read Thomas Sowell. Why? This type of thing is pretty much what he does. He's just another black conservative hack.
Seriously, I know that is a rhetorical statement as the reality is no one should ever read Thomas Sowell.
And John McWorter.
And Shelby Steele.
None of these fine gentlemen take themselves seriously, so why should the public?
sowell has gone off his rocker. these conservatives really want to have it both ways. first they praise reagan, then they produce idiotic arguments like this one. reagan engaged gorbachev and that helped prevent wwIII, now when Obama talks about engaging leaders in the middle east, it's somehow sacrilegious. what i find particularly appalling about his post is his disregard for the lives currently being lost in iraq and afghanistan. no. 9/11 was not a joke, nor are the casualties being levied from fighting this senseless war.
Sowell is basically on a crusade against Obama. He sees Obama as a fraud who utilized his "personal responsibility" and work ethic to get where he is, but then panders to "lazy" black people with his progressive social policies. In the end, he follows the same black neo-con formula,that black people can only rise up through hard work, which is not incorrect, but just like all the others, his argument is sullied by his total disregard for the inequities caused by structural racism in the U.S.
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The Thomas Sowell of today is not worth reading.
However "Ethnic America" is a must read for anybody that thinks seriously about Race and Ethnicity in this country.
When did Sowell fall off? He was one of the few conservative voices I had respect for.
Sowell fell off years ago. He started retreading his ideas and just became cranky.
Read Albert Murray's "The Omni Americans"