This is the reason that “community organizers” have always
been after NASA funding.
It’s called racial spoils. Can you say tribalism?
i have a friend who told me the story of her daughter’s high school graduation.
she was incensed that there was a valedictorian and honors grads.
she felt her daughter was cheated by these people.
as she told me the story her face turned to the look of a pit bull—she was angry.
i thought to myself about her daughter’s behavior:
she stole money from her mother, maxed out a credit card, wrecked her mother’s car, drank and did drugs, and was sexually promiscuous!
meanwhile, her mother ranted on about how her daughter was “equal” to those honors grads.
This is the main reason successful townships like Tulsa Oklahoma and Rosewood were attacked and destroyed.
Interesting article, but I’m not sure Sowell should have used the Philadelphia case to make his point. There may have been something else going on with that incident; when the story first broke I was surprised to read that the Asian students were Chinese immigrants who were 2-3 years older than their grade levels would indicate, so I’d hardly refer to them as paragons of “achievement” in U.S. schools.
Any guesses as to which Americans are ready to move beyond race and which "others" are not?
Liberal solution, dumb-down public skewls to give underachievers a false sense of achievement that only hurts them when competing in the real world to support ones self and family.
Obama has brought out the racism, of blacks and whites. We see it in the violence of black on white and Asians.
Flame away if you will but I see it written on the pages of F.R. too. Sometimes subtle and sometimes not so subtle. The mods delete some comments but they can’t catch it all.
By the way, mocking blacks speech with pathetic attempts at ebonics is racist.
I am embarrassed at times by the things I read here concerning black people and if I were a black conservative, I believe I’d be even more so at the remarks of some of my fellow conservatives and probably wouldn’t bother to come back to this otherwise fine conservative site.
Think before you write things, ask yourself, is “TrueBlackMan” going to be reading this comment? And there are others here too, There is no more conservative FReeper than Kevin, in my opinion.
Like I said flame away but it’s never the less true.
Hmmm. "Expected?" Seriously? Doc?
While Obama’s winning majorities in overwhelmingly white states suggests that many Americans are ready to move beyond race, it is painfully clear that others are not.
Haven't finished the article, but I can't help but wonder who the "others" might be? Who would be expressing that they are still overwhelmingly concerned with how race factors into their lives? Can't quite put my finger on it.
If there is a wiser man than Dr. Sowell in the United States he can’t write as well. As usual spot on and timely.
This also happens in the workplace. I seen people work very hard and they were kept down by management and told to “know their place”. Meanwhile some of the people favored by management with promotions, good pay raises didn’t know their heads from their @$$3$. This is even more so with managers who are liberal democrats.
What a wonderful article. Thank you for sharing.
"Achievement is a slap in the face to those who had the same opportunities but did not succeed; inherited wealth is no such insult.""