Posted on 05/09/2007 8:34:59 PM PDT by jazusamo
I wonder where he lives. I’ve never noticed any such division in the bookstores I go to.
Not to draw the matter to too fine a point, but it appears to me that “par” is in the middle, and if thus remembered helps prevent spelling the word as “seperate.”
Another good one, thank you!
Bookstore owners are, for the most part, liberal-leaning fellows, all hearty and hi-ho who mean well but misread the average Joe-on-the-street; coloreds have had it hard over the years but have been slow to complain which is why, I guess, we have those who cry on their behalf.
Still, a whole article devoted to books or even periodicals is so yesterday, buggy-whippish, even.
He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute on the Stanford University campus. So I suspect he lives somewhere in or near Palo Alto, California, which is about as PC an area as you will ever find. Wealthy liberals, Birkenstocks and Volvos abound here.
“Symbolism lets them feel good about themselves”
say it say it say it!
I’m sure there are many that are happy their work is in a separate section. Dr. Sowell has always been against separate and isn’t afraid to talk about it and he probably outsells the others at least a hundred to one.
Thanks for the info.
That’s right, Borders and stores like them are run for the most part by the lib elite and Dr. Sowell doesn’t fit in with their idea of the higher academic class. Of course he knows this and probably takes pleasure in writing articles like this.
That’s right...out here, most bookstores come with a Starbucks either in the store or the strip mall.
They are white liberals so they think they know exactly what to do with other people.
In '97 or '98, I was liaison from Sasebo Naval Base for a USS BLUE RIDGE port visit to Kagoshoma, Japan. The morning the ship left, 7th Fleet staff gave a letter to mail when I returned to Sasebo. It was from Commander 7th Fleet (I think it was VADM Natter at the time) to Dr. Thomas Sowell at the Hoover Institution. I had a couple of his books and I remember thinking how cool this was. I always wondered what the subject of the letter was-maybe it's mentioned in this book...
That’s interesting...Funny how things like that happen in our lives and they are remembered and mulled over for years.
I have read comments from people here at FR on his book “A Man of Letters” and they speak highly of it, I’ve been meaning to get it.
When I am buying a product or service for our company, I really don’t care about color or gender or ethnicity as long as they give me the best product or service for my money. But I in principal don’t even consider the companies who promote on their logo that they are a women owned company, for example. Do I have to buy their product in sympathy? I think not.
I wonder, if anybody ever did a research if such practices help or hurt them? In his example about books, Sowell says it clearly hurts them.
I love when people make up new words.
Sepatate v. To separate and decapitate during capital punishment. Similar to the act of drawing and quartering.
I think he’s right on target with this. I have always felt that putting black writers in a special section was condescending at best, offensive at worst. Futhermore, it no doubt cuts down on their sales because the white buying public either doesn’t see them or somehow feels whites are not supposed to buy them because they might be treading on territory sacred to and reserved for blacks alone.
I particularly like this one because it touches on something that has puzzled me for quite some time.
As a nation we preach the virtues of leaving racism behind and judging others "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character". The "media" seem to be the ones pounding out this drumbeat.
Yet, they are the ones who are first to note the race of anyone who is remarkable for their achievements....."Guion S. Bluford, the first African-American astronaut...Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice...Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player in the Major Leagues...Elaine Chow, the first Asian Secretary of Labor"...and so on.
As Mr. Sowell would seem to be asking...what difference does it make and why should anyone care?
Until this practice or mindset is left behind to rot, racism will be alive and well in America.
Very well said, agree completely.
The media are the megephone for the Sharpton’s and Jackson’s. You never read in the MSM the accomplishments of people like Sowell and Williams. The Sowell’s and Williams’ have become very successful not because of their color but because of their hard work and they are down to earth people and great thinkers.
The Sharpton’s and Jackson’s are self promoting con men in it for the bucks and are trying to get something for nothing for themselves and for many others that want everything handed to them.
People have to earn the respect of others and become successful through their own efforts, not because of the color of their skin or gender.
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