[Zenjitsuman]

Your list contains 4 racial topics Mr. AS Sowell has going for him.

He is a racial writer who doesn’t like new Conservative intellectuals like Ted Cruz, Levin.

Blacks voted for Hussein Obama because of skin color.

A watered down GOPe which AS is in favor of will never get the African American vote. No matter how bad Obama’s economics has hurt them in unemployment and income inequality. Racial solutions don’t work because the illegals always get the lower paying jobs because they will work for whatever is offered, cutting unskilled Blacks out of opportunity and taking them for granted at election time.

[Billthedrill]

My list was made from a casual perusal of books of his I've purchased. Sowell is a world class economist of the Friedman/von Mises persuasion: that, and not race, is his forte.

I think it is, or should be, beneath the dignity of a free man to demand that such voices be suppressed, especially out of a momentary disagreement over political tactics. Why on earth bother with a site such as FR if it isn't for vigorous discussion?

[Blue Collar Christian]

“Blacks voted for Hussein Obama because of skin color.”

I would say that “many” blacks voted for him because of his skin color. Most that voted for him would have voted for whatever Dem candidate there was anyway. The Dems have the black vote sewed up. Sowell’s point is to just pull a portion of that vote by appealing to the blacks that are willing to think for themselves, and in this case he used charter schools as an example of a route.

So he’s GOPe leaning, do we have to throw the baby out with the bath water? Or can we think for ourselves and consider a way, ANY WAY, to appeal to the black community in such a way, as Sowell suggests, to pull some of that vote over to the conservative side?

That he doesn’t like Cruz, Levin, or the Tea Party movement is what we should criticize, not his entire works.