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Thomas Sowell Schools Race Hustlers (Rashad Richey, Ibram X. Kendi etc) | Thomas Sowell
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when we talk about equality immediately
race pops into mind
uh it's always about race racial
discrimination about the founding of the
nation white dominant Society so forth
and so on and you make the case and
you've made this case throughout your
life but it's very poignant in your book
which is wait a minute
of course this has some impact
but it's not the only thing that has an
impact but why what first of all what
other things have an impact
probably an infinite list of things and
secondly why do they only focus on Race
on the left
so racism I would Define it as a
collection of racist policies that lead
to racial inequity that are
substantiated by racist ideas
anti-racism
[Laughter]
is pretty simple using the same terms
anti-racism is a collection of
anti-racist policies leading to racial
anybody want to take guests Equity that
are substantiated by anti-racist ideas
hahaha
[Laughter]
come again
I guess it's because that that's proven
to be a politically uh popular thing to
do uh but in point of fact that one of
one of the things that's mentioned in
the book is a study that was done by the
New York Times of all people oh some
years ago uh where they tried to show
the 10 poorest counties in the United
States uh and they mentioned which ones
they were and so on uh uh and and uh it
turns out that six of those ten counties
had a popular population that was from
90 to 100 percent White
now in the New York Times They didn't
mention the race of the people but once
they told me the counties I looked it up
and in fact I followed the average
income in those six counties over a span
of 50 years and then all those 50 years
all six of those counties had a median
income lower than the median income of
black Americans
now and so those kind the people in
those counties uh faced zero racism
because they were white and
indistinguishable before from all other
ways uh they they didn't have a legacy
of slavery
and yet there there they were
uh and and it you you have to ask then
clearly there must be other things that
cause poverty we can't just assume that
the costs people of a given race have uh
more poverty than some other other
people that race must be the reason but
this has become the automatic kind of
thing and I think most people would be
quite surprised one of the things that
that happens is that behavior matters
and and you see that in so many uh
different ways
uh for for example uh I think I think
most people would be surprised to learn
that despite the fact that likes as a
whole have a higher poverty rate than
whites as a whole Black married couples
families
how they have for more than a quarter of
a century every single year
had a poverty rate under 10 percent
uh and in most of those years the
national poverty rate was not as low as
10 percent
so it it's not a quite and you say well
this is due to institutional racism in
that case does that mean that the
racists make an exception for blacks who
are married I mean do racists either
Noah care whether blacks are married
none of these live uh explanations
stands up to the slightest empirical
study and let's talk about this when it
comes to minorities generally
do an Asian population in this country
that achieves a lot as a group
intellectually education wise
and they are discriminated against by
these Ivy League colleges by Harvard we
just had a Supreme Court decision and so
forth the way Jews were a hundred years
earlier by Harvard Yale Princeton and so
forth so the people who push this race
issue
is it that they really care about black
people or Asian people or Jewish people
or is it that it's just another wedge
issue to try and destroy this culture
and Destroy This Society there are some
people who are who are who are both some
really believe it and I feel sorry for
them but there are some some who really
don't care if it gets them elected
that's what matters and this is one of
the tragedies of trying to uh politicize
race uh
there are so many fallacies that it's
hard to even know which which one to to
take up but uh for example the the great
narrative is that blacks uh Rose from
poverty uh got into uh uh professional
occupations as a result of the 1960s
social welfare programs uh and then and
this is a bit big benefit
uh
one of the problems with this way of
looking at things is that everything
depends on when you pick as the start of
this trend if you go back to 1940 that
is 20 years before these wonderful
things are supposed to have happened in
the 1960s and you discover that the uh
degree to which blacks were in poverty
declined from 87 percent in 1940 to 47
percent in 1960. so it went by went down
by 40 points uh in those 20 years now
you look at the 20 years following 1960s
they went down 18 points
and so the the trend did not begin in
the 1960s the trend was there before
then and the trend did not even
accelerate after 1960s many people think
that it would all began with the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. well that's that was
a fine act to to get rid of the
segregation laws in the South but the
cold fact is that the percentage of
blacks who had professional occupations
doubled from 1954 to 1964. that is in
the in the decade ending at the time
that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was
passed if you look at the things that
are negative like for example uh black
children being raised in single-parent
households in 1940
just under 17 percent of black kids uh
were raised in par in one parent
families but at the after 1960s before
the end of the century four times that
many 68 of black kids were being raised
in one parent families and that does not
depend on racism or any other things
they talk about it depends upon things
that happen do it due to the policies of
the 1960s which are still going forward
which encourage the dissolution of the
family it's just unbelievable
now they're saying the quiet part out
loud they would like to ban the entire
teaching of racism think about how silly
that is
if you ban the teaching of racism
some some of you may say well that may
be a good idea doc I mean
we can now focus on things like Unity
you really think so
if they ban racism how do you now teach
Dr King
that's true
if you ban racism how do you teach
Gandhi
if you ban racism how do you teach
the civil rights movement in America as
a matter of fact if you ban the teaching
of racism
how can you ever understand the true
origins of America
[Laughter]
come again
how can you ever understand the true
origins of America
another book that is on the uh summer
reading for third through fifth grade is
a book called stamp for kids again by
ibram kindy I read the entirety of the
book and I will say it is
an astonishing book on page 33 it asks
the question
can we send white people back to Europe
that's on 33 that's what's being given
to eight and nine years old
it also
on page 115
says the idea that we should pretend not
to see racism is connected to the idea
that we should pretend not to see color
it's called color blindness
skipping ahead here's what's wrong with
this it's ridiculous skin color is
something we all absolutely see
skipping ahead so to pretend not to see
color is pretty convenient
if you don't actually want to Stamp Out
racism in the first place now what this
book argues for is the exact opposite of
what Dr King
spoke about on the floor of the Lincoln
Memorial you talk about critical race
Theory which is pretty much going to be
teaching kids how to hate each other
how to dislike each other
it's pretty much what is going to all
come down to you're going to
deliberately teach kids this white kid
right here got it better than you
because he White You're Gonna personally
tell a white kid oh the black people are
all down and suppressed how do I have
two medical degrees if I'm sitting here
oppressed
you've only got five minutes now five
minutes it is sad that we are even
contemplating something like critical
race Theory where children will be
separated by their skin color and deemed
permanently oppressors or oppressed in
2021 that is not teaching the truth
unless you believe that whites are
better than blacks I have personally
heard teachers teaching CRT and we have
had an assembly shut down because Duval
County public school system consultant
thought it would be a great idea to
separate students by race this is
unacceptable CRT is not an honest
dialogue is a tactic that was used by
Hitler in the Ku Klux Klan on slavery's
very many years ago to dumb down my
ancestors you cannot tell me what is or
is not racist look at me
I had to come down here today to tell
you to your face that we are coming
together and we are strong this will not
be the last greet and meet respectfully
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