Someone tell Mike Steele.
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Rwandan citizens dating to colonial days were required to carry IDs which listed each as either Hutu or Tutsi -- mixed were classified the same as the father. It was not tribal according to the book An Ordinary Man.
The Hutu-controlled government quietly organized neighborhoods into Hutu militant groups and made available to them tens of thousands of machetes (purchased from China). Soon there was talk urging Hutus to "Clean your neighborhood of brush. Cut the tall trees" and they meant Tutsi neighbors literally next door.
The force behind it all was ex-government Tutsis ousted by Hutus years ago, endeavoring to reclaim the government by an invasion from a neighboring country. Due to Rwanda's long history of getting along (I got from the book) the conflict was more political than ethnic.
Some are trying to make it happen here I take it as Dr. Sowell's message.. the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus/street revolutionary rabble certainly tried to get it going a generation ago. Couple them with their ideological issue and you've got arguably the Establishment today -- much more dangerous. But what of the 20+million ILLEGAL aliens with no love of country (meaning us)?
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Sowell is so insightful I consider him my brother.
Thank you Mr. Sowell!
BUMP! I’m currently reading Dr. Sowell’s latest, ‘Intellectuals and Society.’
The man takes no prisoners! :)
“Has he been allied with uniters or dividers in the past? Do Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and Father Pfleger sound like uniters?
What has his administration done— as distinguished from what the president has said— since taking office?
It has dropped the prosecution of black thugs caught on camera stationed outside a polling place intimidating voters.
Obama has promoted to the Supreme Court a circuit judge who dismissed a discrimination lawsuit by white firefighters, whose case the Supreme Court later accepted and ruled in their favor. “
Obama is out for blood, not just revenge.
Another jewel by Sowell.
It needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
This is just one of many areas in which this country is likely to pay a very high price for the fact that too many voters paid attention to Obama's rhetoric while ignoring his actual track record...
The question is whether you want equal treatment or you want payback. Cycles of revenge and counter-revenge have been at the heart of racial and ethnic strife throughout history, in countries around the world. It is a history written in blood. It is history we don't need to repeat in the United States of America...
Thank you, Mr. Sowell.
He doesn’t mention Hitler, possibly because Hitler is so overused in argument that it could be said there is a Hitler card. But the parallel with the other race conflicts he mentions is obvious.
Would everyone please listen? Media people? Once fighting starts, words no longer have the power they once did to stop the antagonism.
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Thugs from the South Side of Chicago know all about payback.