[GOPJ]

Among the left's most corrosive ideas is the concept of perpetual and permanent racial victimhood, which social engineers pretend to rectify through federally mandated, taxpayer-subsidized preferential policies. Sowell's groundbreaking academic analyses of these programs in the U.S. and around the world exposed how elites profit mightily at the expense of the alleged beneficiaries of government-coerced affirmative action.

The grand rhetoric of diversity masks the true intent and actual impact of current racially discriminatory "solutions" to past racial discrimination: solidifying the power of the few over the many. As Sowell put it succinctly in one of the first pieces of his I came across in the journal "The Public Interest":

"Live people are being sacrificed because of what dead people did."

Sowell was so right on this point... one I didn't understand until I took the time to read Sowell over and over and slowly started realizing I was an idiot to back affirmative action= even in the early years. Gads, he's a national treasure... Hopefully he'll get bored with taking beautiful artistic pictures... and sometimes come back to writing...or not. He deserves every happiness the world has to offer.

[jazusamo]

He surely is a national treasure and like you hope he’ll write on issues from time to time. I’m keeping the ping list and will use it if and when he does.