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One of the more enduring lies from the Left about racial relations in America is the one made up in the 70s about Blacks not being “able” to be racists because they don’t have the power to be. Coming from the same corner that loves to growl about power coming from “the barrel of a gun” and “by any means necessary” this would be a hypocritical position; but the left is built on hypocrisy so it fits quite well. Recently a Columbia professor took a walk along Harlem’s Malcolm X Boulevard. The professor, who is a Skih with an Indian...

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20020717.shtml Thomas Sowell July 17, 2002 Indignation, inc. A recent front-page story in The New York Times was headlined: "In Ecuador's Banana Fields, Child Labor is Key to Profits." This is part of an ongoing orgy of indignation by the intelligentsia at low-paid labor in the Third World. The question they never ask is: Compared to what? But people for whom indignation is a way of life seldom pause to compare the available options. Instead, they are ready to foreclose some of the options of poor people, who have painfully few options to begin with. Buried on an inside page...