Thomas Sowell on The Effects of Victimology
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- '...liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed "legacy of slavery" they talk about' - Thomas Sowell (Full article here: bit.ly/2ibA9TQ)
The American economist and social theorist, Dr. Thomas Sowell, discusses the negative effects of a vision based on grievances.
Credit to the Hoover Institution.
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Glad I found this gentleman. Finally found another black man who notices this victim mentality and sees the ill-effects.
SPOT LIGHT: He has...there is none that affect an entire community anymore than black racism, or sexism or any other type of -ism...you MISSED THE WHOLE POINT, DUDE! WOW Sowell isn't gonna concur with your victimhood, because you AREN'T a victim...75% fatherless black headed households since the Civil Rights Act(which was passed by Republicans, just to note) is racist? Snitches get stitches is racist? Over 9,000 black-on-black deaths PER YEAR for the last 35 YEARS is racist? Brother, your perspective needs adjusting. I'm a non-affiliated centrist FOR LIFE! I cry over this...do you! Or do you blame everyone else and whistle past the graveyard...Literally!?!?
SPOTLIGHT....Ah yes, the old boogeyman is still here argument, despite HISTORICALLY low unemployment in the black community...gotcha...LOFL...check those STEM degree numbers among your community(and let the women know about their UNDERERPRESENTATION BY CHOICE and INABILITY to tackle the rigors of STEM, too) whatever that may be...check the life decisions...what career did YOU choose?!? All I see is straw man arguments, excuses and cry baby stuff...AGAIN...I'm not surprised that race baiters and race pimps LIKE yourself have nothing left but to rehash the same tired arguments that racism is rampant; the cry of "don't deny it;" and "we're victims once again, just as it's always been"...anecdotal and miniscule assertions doesn't impress me much...certainly you know the difference between equal opportunity and equal outcome? Hint: THEY ARE NOT connected.
And ultimately you have the stupidity to make a claim that there are somehow lots of qualified black folks who applied for a job, got rejected, and decided to turn to crime and welfare BY CHOICE?!?...am I reading this non-sensical, non-sequitur garbage correctly?...ARE YOU FUCKING kidding me! Pure unadulterated nonsense...I'm not surprised in the least...sadly(czcams.com/video/oww-4wdrvgI/video.html)
Spotlight. I am a white male. If I apply for a job I do not expect to get it. I do not feel entitled to get it. I do not feel it is my right to get it. If two hundred other people have applied for it I would consider myself very lucky to get even as far as an interview. Selection of a successful candidate is by definition, a highly discriminatory process (yes, discrimination is everywhere, for and by eveyone). With so many applicants to choose from, success or failure may easily turn on something as arbitary as a choice of shoes or hairstyle that day. Clearly, test scores are useful but only as one of a multitude of factors that are considered when deciding on the most suitable candidate. You have absolutlely no right to play the race card just because a white guy with a 96% score beat you to the position. Isn't maybe at all possible that you simply got beat this time?
Oh well, perhaps you'll have to apply for another job then.
Or just give up and become a criminal drug dealer.
Finaly: it has been my experience that likableness is the single most important factor when it comes to getting a job, and that entitled vicitimhood is just about the most unattractive and unlikable human characteristic is is possible to possess.
Either way the solution is the same: Stop complaining, shoulder the barriers and get on with it.
SPOTLIGHT: Missed this drivel...I have BS in Construction Mgmnt, have had or currently hold Commercial GC licenses with UNLIMITED Building capacity for size, scope and value in six states, and have ELIGIBILITY for reciprocity in all but one, Certified Construction Manager(am ABET and ANSI certification) and over 30 years in the business...I have been LEGALLY denied, via legislation from both BIDDING on projects, applying to MANAGE projects via RFP/RFQ because I failed to have a diversity(non-white or female), military or 'historically underutilized' certification or even being eligible to WORK on projects because of what you would call discrimination, but I never cried like you did. Not even when MINORITY employers DID hire me to do the work, and reaping the additional BENEFITS, and this is common..Do I cry or complain that 'minorities' or 'women' hire a non-minority or male- quite often- to do the ACTUAL work while the 'qualifying minority' owns 51% of said company? Nope, I manned-up and performed as I should because of PERSONAL pride and sense of integrity, and not some self-serving sense of sticking it to the powers that be even though EVERYONE in my industry knows damn well this happens every day! Of course, your position is that only non-whites can be subjected to discrimination as I demonstrated in my other posts pointing out YOUR lack of recognition of non-white and males as victims, while in fact they were ACTUALLY recognized LEGALLY as victims of discrimination by your own EEOC link. In other words: you're a cry baby, who likely sued...this is evidenced by your knowing where your test scores ranked you in a Civil Service Exam, which I've never heard of in 25+ years of dealing with government employees(even Civil Service employees) at ALL levels and jurisdictions(local, State or Federal) and they have NEVER disclosed the information you claim...I have never even heard of any State Examination Board doing anything except disclosing exam results to the examinee ONLY...the ONLY exception I can fathom is potentially by a motion for discovery during litigation. Don't tell me you're all bitter because you didn't get a Civil Service job because some racist 'white devil' was plotting against you, then sued and lost! Of course this would explain your shit outlook on life...do tell exactly how an 'electromechanical technology' degree fits into the Civil Service?
You're my kind of people Gatorbuilt.
I live in Austria and migrated here at the age of nine, with my parents from Romania. Even here the left-wing is doing their best to talk us into becoming victims, which is why I will do my best to spread the word of Mr. Thomas Sowell.
Nat Brown bravo , cat mai mulți ar trebui sa ascultam asemenea oameni. Good luck
rulouri
adevarat.
Nat Brown If I was you I'd go back to Austria. I'll go with you. No homo
Clay Reznor They are in Austria...
correlation does not imply causation. when sowell asserts that the liberal welfare state is the sole reason black kids grow up in single-parent households much more often, he completely ignores the effects that the conservative "war on drugs" had, a policy which Nixon's top advisor said was explicity designed to target black people, instituted immediately after the Civil Rights movement reforms went into place. A generation of black fathers imprisoned for drugs. this "legacy of slavery" is a straw man
the man is a laser beam of clear thinking.
chazshier great way of putting it
Many thanks! I never expected to make such a popular comment. It cannot be disputed however; he lays the facts out for all to see. We, as a society, ignore them at our peril. It benefits no one to ignore the lessons of history.
chazshier what you meant was he's a right wing nit like you! he's been blaming welfare as has all right wing economists have been doing for decades with simple answers cause they know they're speaking to simple people like you guys take welfare and see what you get! it won't be jobs or prosperity tell Sowell to give an example of a society that resembles the one he thinks will developer if there was no welfare state
thegreatonecometh200 The start of all nations is the overall production and self improvement of society. I think when they blame the welfare state, they mean that it promotes counter-productive ideals.
taloutezero no they're saying especially Sowell that the welfare state causes degenerate behavior but other countries with welfare and an understanding that free markets don't produce enough jobs so they take care of their country men and women unlike here where your told by conservatives and libertarians to tell your fellow country men and women to go fuck themselves that's the kind of country you'd want to live in
It's no mistake that those like Sowell and Walter E. Williams are virtually unknown to public school students.
If I had been introduced to me in public school. It would have definitely been a game changer in out comes as Iam 43 now. A Concrete Finisher. I had no clue there was different schools of economic thought like Austrians Chicago etc. An how there intertwined with political views conservatives libertarians etc
Now Iam getting a glimpse into how really money works. I would b better off now and threw out my whole life. 100%
@@kevinconvey7512 Sadly, we have come to trust the public school system to introduce these ideas. They have another agenda in mind.
@@flyoverkid55 An un-American, un-Constitutiona; agenda. If we look to see who is complicit in this agenda, who will we see?
Sowell is the voice of reason.
correlation does not imply causation. when sowell asserts that the liberal welfare state is the sole reason black kids grow up in single-parent households much more often, he completely ignores the effects that the conservative "war on drugs" had, a policy which Nixon's top advisor said was explicity designed to target black people, instituted immediately after the Civil Rights movement reforms went into place. A generation of black fathers imprisoned for drugs. this "legacy of slavery" is a straw man
Ben Trotto see above. Fail.
You're right. Society in no way frames our interactions. Social forces control no aspects of our lives.
So it all started with FDR?
Ben Trotto he never said it's the sole reason dummy. It's you with the strawman.
Welfare should be an emergency rescue, not a way of life. "What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away." -T. Sowell
' Nuff said.
Oppressed white guy welfare is needed cause capitalism never create enough jobs! and if you don't want those people climbing into your window at night you better give them something! or they'll take something and he needs to quit pretending that it's prodomanately black people getting the welfare get rid of it and see what happens! as if he had something to replaced it with tell him to give a way to get rid of it
thegreatonecometh200 Pay people not to break the law? Lmao
The main point of capitalism is to advance ones own ambitions and growth. Waiting for others to create jobs for you isn't how it's supposed to work. Those very people you claim would resort to climbing into windows, why not promote the idea that they can study, work, save money and then create a dream and pursue it? That's how capitalism works. Have a dream/idea and work hard to make it come true.
thegreatonecometh200 I said I have no problem with having a social safety net, nor do I have a problem with the government helping those people who have physical, psychological or other major issues that keep them from keeping up with the rat race. But there has to be a balance to everything, and when millions of illegal aliens, many with poor language skills and under educated, can come here and find a job, our society is not at a point where there simply are no jobs for people to escape abject poverty, like it was during the Great Depression. Unlike just a social safety net, a welfare state encourages dependency on the govt. for political purposes. And there's a million things wrong with that.
@ thegreatonecometh200: You are a prime example of that which Dr. Sowell speaks. The self pity, lack of personal responsibility, and entitlement of those like you are exactly that which is holding you back.
Come and climb into my window, and I will certainly give you something at no charge. It would be my pleasure.
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, for none but ourselves can free our minds" - Bob Marley
It was actually Marcus Garvey who coined that phrase!
@@trudy-annbrown3650 thank you, I only know it from "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley.
@@truekingofthejungle9038 lol.
Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest voices for "common sense" in American history. He has helped make me a better person.
The truth hurts way more than telling people what they want to hear or want to believe!
As it should. The truth should burn away that which is no longer beneficial or useful.
you know Ben carson literally said the same thing and he got crucified for it by the liberal media
LeRoMo MD ...and Ben Carson wasn’t?
Dr. Sowell, apologies
not as much bro..probably coz ben carson was the face of republican politics wen he said that..sowell is not in the media most times..
Sad how people don't want to hear the truth. It is nice to hear such an intelligent person speak.
Unable to get mortgages, and restricted to overcrowded neighborhoods where housing was in short supply, African Americans either rented apartments at rents considerably higher than those for similar dwellings in white neighborhoods or bought homes on installment plans. These arrangements, known as contract sales, differed from mortgages because monthly payments were not amortized, so a single missed payment meant loss of a home, with no accumulated equity. In the Atlantic last year, Ta-Nehisi Coates described how this system worked in Chicago. Rutgers University historian, in her book Family Properties, Beryl Satter described it this way:
Property is the number one way to raise an economic status for American working people of which Thomas Sowell knows.
Marco More unfortunately you have the establishment media and dems not wanting it. They run on the victim mentality. keep them down
Zap Rowsdower212, It's even funnier how people like you and others who use different mechanisms to shape reality beyond being objective and truthful deny that there are victims, a victim to most modern haters is someone who explains their situation and attempts to fight against others making it true or happening again. All racist deny they do things to sway the odds it's just a natural thing for racist to do to make it look justified.
M Wilson Have you met many people with grievances that stemmed from reasons completely out of their control?
We all have.
That last comment about Jesse Jackson had me spilling my tea. Sowell has hidden comedic talent in addition to his brilliant mind.
It's not the first time Sowell's last comment in these interview segments has made me laugh, that's for sure!
caught me off guard too... haha
bategs900 Exactly! And it is that last comment about Jesse Jackson that truly highlight how wise and perceptive Thomas Sowell is. He has a brilliant mind 💯👍
bategs900 Intellects tell the best jokes honestly.
Walter Williams is tremendously funny as well.
So sad more people don't know this man and his amazing work.
Most people don't know him because he is fucking idiot
+Ronald Honda - Is that why no one knows who you are?
It's not "sad"....it's downright insane
@@ronaldhonda2276 Typical for the Left to attack the messenger, that's ALL they have.
For a close up look at a F'ing idiot you simply look into your mirror.
Shit, I think Sowell might have just made me a fiscal conservative
Sowell did it to me too
And all it took was 15 minutes... That liberal mentality just doesn't hold up against reason and truth.
CUEBALL424 the liberals lack common sense.
dard slin welcome, come in, come in! Sowell is truly a giant among men!
dard slin I'm not an american but from what I've seen I'd be a weird fucker liberal but willing to concede evidence based things I'm much like Thomas where it's call em what I see em
I'll just add this little tidbit... I'm a 30 year old white man who lives in a small town in Alabama- right outside Birmingham. In my small town, we had a very old black lady who was a middle school science teacher. She was something of a legend here; someone everyone respected & admired. She was the very first black teacher my county's board of education ever hired. When my mother was a child, she was neighbors with this black teacher. She was also one of her favorite students, and they remained friends up until her death a few years ago. I'll never forget what she told me once sometime back around 2008 or so when I was visiting from college. She said that she while was proud to finally be able to vote for a black presidential candidate in her lifetime, she hated the effect he was having on the present-day black community. In her opinion, today's younger black people who have no experience with Jim Crow laws whatsoever, seemed to hate White people more now than they ever did back when she was a teenager during the Civil Rights movement. That was a stunning remark I thought. She said blacks have more animosity towards Whites today than they did when they were actually being discriminated against- being beaten by police, terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan, and having their homes & churches bombed (FYI, Birmingham was nicknamed "Bombingham" during the Civil Rights movement because more than 300 black homes, churches, and community centers were dynamited).
I didn't press her on it because I wasn't sure if asking further questions would perhaps bring up bad memories. Turns out, I didn't have to. She saw how I was amazed over her statement so she went on to describe how back then, black people had a different perspective on things. She described it as a shared sense of nobility amongst the black community back then to take it all in stride, to not resort to the same hatred & violence in return, and to press on with a quiet determination. While there very much was a genuine mistrust and disdain for Whites back then, they also recognized there was no value in it if they truly wanted to aspire to something greater. They understood that mentality would have to be discarded if progress was to ever be made. But now, there were no traces of that sentiment. There was only rage, blame, and victimhood dictating everything in her opinion.
Wow! Thanks for sharing.
Damn, that was an outstanding story!!! What a tremendous asset that sweet woman was to that of the human race.
Thomas Sowell should be on TV every day in 2020.
I fear the day when he's gone
Josh Redinger He has written many books. He will live on in his works. His contribution to scholarship is phenomenal and he deserves to be adulated and emulated. I am hard pressed to identify his peers in the realm of scholarship. He towers over the legions of leftists seizing the means of education and perverting it into indoctrination. Mr Sowell is the antidote to the superstitious nabobs who occupy universities spreading the progressive religion of socialism.
if these cultural marxists keep gaining momentum they'll remove / delete his works as a way to protect us from 'bad' ideas. this is literally what they're advocating for right now... with the support of the media.
Josh Redinger
Don't fear it. He has MANY that are ready to take their place when he retires from this existence.
this man speaks some truth but not all because racism and white supremacy plays a huge role still to this day
WILL SAGE White people make up a large demographic so seeing them more often represented is not "white supremacy". Unless you meant something abitrary that has no logical evidence...
I love how the man interviewing him is genuinely intrigued by him he's just sitting with his hand on his cheek listening lol
Sowell a boss
A black scholar who who knows his stuff, can articulate it and suffers no fools. I ask both young and old, who's next to pick up the mantle and run with it? This man's legacy must continue.
love sowell. total common sense.
grew up in 40s. out house. hand pump. dirt floor. dad killed when I was 8. welfare once a month block cheese. some condensed milk. big bag puffed rice that I can't eat to this day. it was a shame to be on any kind of welfare. very little crime of any kind. theft worst. welfare has destroyed Indians. blacks and whites. we had to work. no one else would help.
YES
What a beautiful mind.
One thing I love about Thomas Sowell is that as a sociological genius, he still explains his ideas in a way I can understand. He is also not afraid to speak and explain his conclusions no matter how "politically incorrect" they are deemed to be!
He is a true realist
So glad I have learned about Thomas Sowell, the man is an inspiration.
This man has educated me. A brilliant mind. Thank you Mr Sowell.
Thanks for posting. If only this man's voice could reach more ears.
Eric Swiatek repost on all your social media networks... every little bit helps
Fortunate to have an autographed book from him.
Every comment on the top page here is positive and no one is cutting Sowell down. Very few others say anything remotely negative. That’s a rarity and it’s a good testament to his character. Truly, this is a great man.
I dont know how I have not heard of this man before today, but I have needed him in my life since I was a child. Thanks OP for hosting this video!
The war on drugs also has a huge impact on the negative outcome of urban neighborhoods.
Thomas Sowell, you are so right. All I can say is "what happened?" It was like that in the 60's in Pittsburgh. It is not like that now.
Christine Buncic we as members of the community of spirit have abandoned our responsibility to our fellow man and elected a government to fill the void.
With great responsibility comes great power. The people year after year don't vote the government more power they vote her more responsibility and in so doing must then grant her greater powers to fulfill her responsibilities. The state however has time and time again proven unable to responsibly and judiciously exercise the duties the people have bestowed upon her and in fact does so at a detriment to both liberty and individualism.
The War On Drugs
If the drugs that people in inner city communities are buying are available legally, there would be much, much less killing over drug selling territory. Why would you buy your drugs from some shady dude on a street corner when you can go to the store and legally buy what you want without dealing with thugs or worrying about going to jail for it? The incentive to use force to control a territory would virtually disappear because the demand would be served by private companies instead of the black market.
It's not like we don't have perfect precedents for this. Alcohol prohibition didn't work, it just incentivized large alcohol running rings and the violent crime needed to sustain them, and the war on drugs only exacerbated that problem. There is absolutely no reason why the government should completely hand over a trillion dollar industry to criminals on the black market.
Logan Matthews
Remember Eric Garner? He kept being arrested because he was selling UNTAXED cigarettes without a LICENSE many times to minors. He RESISTED arrest too, didn't he?
Governments tend to TAX items like cigarettes, alcohol and drugs heavily because of the COSTS to society.
If you can buy 2 or 3X as many drugs illegally you don't think many people will still buy them illegally? Think those that sold them BEFORE they were legal won't keep selling them?
Not ALL drugs will be LEGAL and there will still be those who will provide them for a price as well.
NOT every community has the same drug problem. I don't want to have drugs readily available to my children just to solve YOUR PROBLEM. I am pretty sure the blacks and other races who live in the same mostly white, mixed neighborhood I live in don't want their children being able to buy these drugs legally.
Is ANYONE making these young men kill each other? I am not saying whites don't commit crimes too but we don't have a problem with them going to jail.
Research the homicide rates in the states with the HIGHEST percentage of blacks with those with the LOWEST percentage of blacks. Take 10 or whatever number of the highest and lowest % of black states and look at homicide rates. There are other reasons as well but *the results are frightening* deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state
Still unsure, compare your results with homicide rates in European countries as well as Canadian and Australian with mostly black African and Caribbean countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Couldn't the problem in your community be single mothers and not drugs Blacks that do get at least a high school education, don't have criminal records and MOVE to where jobs are available often do OK.
It was the Blacks who VOTED in the Presidents who made the situation of the black family worse. Lyndon Johnson War on Poverty destroyed the black family and Bill Clinton who passed the 3 strikes and mandatory minimums put many black men in jail.
Tyler Haycraft
War on drugs
War on poverty
Housing crisis
Crime bill in the 1990s
NAFTA and the shipping away of jobs.
Its all remedied by a pair of bootstraps btw.
Thomas Sowell is one of the great economists and philosophers of our time...I am buying ALL of his books!
Everybody on Twitter thinks I'm a racist and out of my fucking mind when I try to engage them from Sowell's point of view. The misconceptions people have about the problems in the US are criminal.
Indeed fatherlessness accounts for quite a bit.
My opinion. Thats the war thats needs to be won.. Fathers being around regardless of the capacity... Our children need us around
Such a brilliant man
Only half way through this piece but, I remember hanging out on the fire escape for comfort after a long, busy, hot and sometimes frustrating day.
I made my way through without victimization. Not saying that there is no racism in this system oh there is, but I demanded respect. Not one time have I experienced unfair responses when I went forward because I was black, but only because I was a man, not saying others did. I am a man that you had no choice but to respect. Malcolm X said the same thing he is saying, but pro-blacks don't Sowell. He's not wrong. He is not saying forget the past, but really build your own community like the other ethnic groups, let out dollar circulate 18 times before it go elsewhere. I do not applaud "The first black" whatever in a white mans organization. History uncovered truths decades ago, time to regulate from within. There should be majority of black people policing ourselves, smothering our on fires, handing out loans, in a nutshell... SOVERIGN INFRASTRUCTURE.. not black leaders speaking for us saying "Black Lives Matter", because that saying please white people, can ya please care about us. White privilege is a farce also, meaning that white people gets away with things or something, they are broke too, same welfare, similar messed up debt to income ratio problems, not one white person I know is not worried about being 2 paychecks away from poverty, Who feeds that to ya'll?
There is a lot more to say but I have more videos to watch... i'm 2 stops from my destination to work.
Goddamn it, I looked over and see typos and improper sentences.. I'll address before someone's arguement starts with that. This is youtube, not a memorandum
sincere2da No sweat, typing on a small screen while commuting is like doing an obstacle course.
Ideas are important, typos are a tiny part of life.
lol, much respect for pointing out your own typing errors, and agree with lonsumtree, tiny part of life, and those damn little screens and fat fingers ;)
I'm from the South, a white girl, couldn't stand seeing some of the racism, grew up in the 80's but it was just tiring that there was such a divide. What MOST people don't get, there was a divide from both sides. Neither wanted to meet in the middle. My black friends didn't want to be bussed to our neighborhood.
Slavery is/was wrong. Still happening today in Africa, Nigeria and other parts of world. Sowell points out history and that this isn't the first place it has happened (not minimalizing at all) BUT he also points out a very key point in that slaves in US were remarkable in teaching themselves, some even going to college (not receiving a degree) but they learned, then opened colleges themselves. I get so upset with 'white America' - mostly liberals - that are sheep and get sucked in to this BLM as a distraction. When people say systemic...yeah, a system that a political party convinced a group they needed. When you see Oprah become a billionaire in 20 years? Michael Jordan? There are almost 6000 black men killed each year by their own brother. Highest abortion rates. Highest single mother rates. Only 75% of black youth graduate HS. WHY doesn't anyone care about that? Where is Sharpton? Where is BLM? Where is Jackson?
IF Black America were a country we would have changed things already but we don't? Oprah? Obama? They have the time now.
Can you imagine.......Oprah, Obama, Beyonce, JayZee, Michael Jordan, Robert Smith, walking arm in arm into Garfield Park or Austin areas of Chicago offering hope and change? Asking guns to be given up? Offering jobs? Kids to be able to go to school without gangsters keeping them from getting there?
I picture an old photo of MLK - all fine dressed men - locked arm in arm demanding humanity and equality. X said, 'if they do nothing for you, stop giving them your vote'' - killed by his own brothern days later.
Waiting for Obama to do what he said. I voted him first time, I want hope and change. And I wish Trump would shut his pie hole, put his head down and just get to work. Thomas Sowell should have been President. Does anyone know if he ever aspired to run?
Lisa Sievers I wanted to come up with a retaliatory remark but you nailed it. I honestly wonder why my community is waiting for the white man to change his mind and save us instead of our icons coming together to show/remind us how to save ourselves.
Christopher Dews WE SHALL OVERCOME
This man is a wealth of information and experience. A true American hero. Thank you for sharing.
Why was this guy not president?
Simple. He doesn't care to run for office, knowing the liberal Left will do everything in their power to demean and slander him, his family, and place him under a microscope. As they did with Dr. Carson. He left the " plantation " a long time ago and liberals will not tolerate that.
Kevin M
Well said.
Kevin M he would run as a Republican and their politics would ruin him. it's not just liberals, conservatives have completely lost their way. the ideals behind both movements have been trounced by greed.
@ savagevic: Why respond if you choose to ignore my comment? He hasn't run, and it isn't because he can't decide which party would best serve his ambitions. He is free to comment upon circumstances as he sees them, and isn't beholden to either party.
It wasn't argumentative, just my opinion. Individuals like Thomas Sowell have values and views that sometimes don't work within the political arena. IMO
Thomas Sowell is the original reason I decided to get my degree in economics. at 22 years old I bought and read basic economics because I randomly wanted to understand how the economy worked. I remember googling his name in Barnes and noble to make sure he wasn't a typical liberal anti capitalist. I read a few sentences into his Wikipedia page and decided to buy Basic Economics haha
This is an insight i never thought about ever. Watching from Kenya.
He will be missed like Hitchens when he leaves us.
Hamza k Hitchens is missed by atheists, Sowell will be missed by anybody with a working brain and some decency.
+brian robertson listening to you describe these people in the manner that you describe them actually sounds like you are describing yourself. "working brains, biases, attempting to use logic" no one has all the answers and you call them out on it while claiming to have all the answers. So on the outside looking in I see no difference from them and you. Can't take anyone seriously with such a judgmental outlook on people that don't think the same way as you.
No dude, Hitchens was a marxist.
bright mind just like hitch😁
His book are hear to be read.
Wow this sowell guy is a stud
Jon Bones Jones U need to watch him debate Cloward and Piven
How could anyone give a Thumbs Down to this genius?????? This guy is so damn smart.
"I don't think I should take on the project of convincing somebody to reduce his income by 90%"... classic. This man could never be a politician. Too much common sense; too much data. His corrupt fellow politicians would have to actually accept responsibility for his overwhelming, well organized data. He's an encyclopedia of statistics. Great video.
"reduce his Income by 90%..." That's great.
A wise man that Thomas, a wise man. Sad but true.
Shots fired!
Yeah lol JJ will not do that.
The host looks like he's getting his mind blown every three seconds.
He's getting blown under the table every three seconds
Wow! This guy is a fountain of knowledge and of sound reason. It’s refreshing to hear someone who is so articulate being allowed to speak.
The tragedy is that not near enough people know about Thomas Sowell, his knowledge stemming from living out to see how certain political policies turned out, and how he never gets overly emotional in his interviews!
LOVE THIS MAN!!!
Wow I love this guy
His last comment regarding Jessie Jackson is an excellent example of his low-key humor. Mr. Sowell is an exceptionally intelligent human being!
This is the most intelligent person I have ever had the pleasure to listen to. I’m an uneducated white male with the knowledge of how black Americans, women, native Americans were treated in the past in which makes me feel horrible but understanding those whom committed those acts were the worst of humanity. History is full of disgusting actions against people via race, religion, social inequality and so on even to this day. So really placing blame on all when in-fact the few were responsible creates policies that destroy the economy structure of our United States of America due to guilt. It infuriates races, classes, and religious groups and ultimately creating greed for leaders to profit from such divisions.
NATIONAL TREASURE.
In Canada we have our "Black" situation and Liberalism --our Natives continually get -----hundreds of millions ---. (let that sink in...) to help them with housing and education. We are constantly experiencing white guilt. Thanks Liberals for jack squat
Thank you Dr. Sowell. I'm a 69 year old(white male) whatever that means. I have had my mind started running again. Thank you so much again
I am always most impressed by the bravery of Black men and women like Sowell.
The fact that he is brilliant and bases his opinions in fact does not shield him from the backlash of liberals, particularly Black ones.
No White person is as cruel to a Black person as Blacks are to members of their race who refuse to parrot liberal rhetoric.
I can't believe I just discovered this guy a couple of months ago. He's one of the greatest black intellectuals of our times. But I guess he doesn't fit the leftist agenda
If this honorable and brilliant man spoke at a university, the SJW ignoramuses would try to shut him down.
I grew up in one of the best rural black communities. It was so old school and wonderful. People worked hard to maintain and they respected each other
Everything about Sowell has been said, but from this interview, I think the best part was the interviewer. Clear questions, signs of true empathy towards Sowell, making an effort to understand his point of view. Really nice interview.
imagine the love child of sowell and jordan peterson
I love both!
A truly wise man with great insights.
Drugs flooding the black community also played a major role.
Paul Davis AND JUST WHO HELD A GUN TO ANYONE'S HEAD & FORCED THEM INTO DRUG ABUSE? ALCOHOL IS READILY AVAILABLE, TOO. SHOULD WE BLAME THOSE WHO SELL IT OR THOSE WHO WILLINGLY CONSUME IT FOR THE PROBLEM OF ADDICTION? WE ARE NOT FREE FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR OWN DESTRUCTIVE CHOICES . . .
@@beverlydrew1520 no comparison between a drug addict and someone who drinks alcohol
One of the most logical people I know of. I wish everyone would take the time to listen to what he says.
take this truth and spread it. we must break the liberal chains.
that moment when you notice Thomas Sowell's voice sounds like a bass boosted Larry King
no way this dude is 87, so much energy in the way he speaks
Jesus, hes already 86 ... cant believe it ... lookin forward to reading more from him
Has he ever been wrong about anything his entire life? Truth hurts...but people need to hear it.
fiscer247 he was once a Marxist....
Brad Trapp I'm glad he woke up and smelled the coffee. This is proof that people can change for the better.
Iraq war
This guy is amazing. What a great man!
One of the smartest people I've ever listened to.
******MR. SOWELL IS A BRILLIANT SOLID ROCK OF A MAN!****** Definitely can learn much from the man.
I wish biology was also incorporated into economics. It would be much more helpful to understand human behavior.
Krypt Sanies it is. The field is called Behavioral economics. Study of human cognition and economic behavior.
Interesting!
try to keep up
Why doesn't Dr. Sowell get more recognition and airplay?
Doesn't fit the narrative of black victimology. Actually he is a pariah. Shame!
What amazing insight Mr. Sowell has for America today! Sadly, this wisdom is not at all well known, and it's in stark contrast to the liberal narrative we've been experiencing for decades! Imagine what America might be capable of if we had this man as president! This genius is made of pure wisdom; the kind we need sorely today!
42 people think are being held down by the mayun.
Is the phrase ‘black conservative’ still oxymoronic? Bret Weinstein talks about being impressed and changing opinions on race issues after meeting black conservatives: czcams.com/video/xc7Aqv-ojrM/video.html
It's not in my book. Hell, if white people can hate white people, then mustn't it be possible for blacks to be white supremacist? Obviously, it's somewhat hard to see why they would support that, and how it would benefit them (if at all). But that is the golden key - the missing puzzle piece. The world is a whole different place when seen through your very own eyes. :)
I'm behind you Thomas Sowell.
It blows my mind how many people disagree with Sowell's observation & assessment here. On what planet ARE they?
Ummm it is racism, but like most Americans they don't know what Racism is. Between 1950-1962 over 800 Black thriving neighborhoods were destroyed via the Govt with the exuse of "urban renewal" and the racist Highway act that displaced countless Black created neighborhoods to build national highway system. When those Black homeowners were displaced they were put into Govt created housing projects. So u went from home owners to section 8 rentals. That's called RACISM. This is why close to 37 percent of whites have inheritance compared to 7 percent of Blacks. Generational Wealth matters
So the government doing stuff fucks everything up.
Mosdef Shel you are reaching quite a bit
Then why are other neighborhoods not affected by this still doing so badly? Did you listen when he said that the amount of fatherless homes tripled in 30 years AFTER the liberals started uh "helping" black communities
Mosdef, that's the victim hood mentality he's speaking about. You're painting a false narrative by either ignorance or excusing many other aspects of the issue. Did some of that happen sure, but it goes a lot deeper and Black people have their own part in their own destruction in their own communities.
Sowell does good work, but he has no right to affirm causation based only on correlation. He knows better, too. He never points a finger at e.g. the Great Depression as an example of the horrors that result from of a lack of welfare, but rather attributes it to other things that suit his agenda.
Correlation could be a contributor to the causation?
Liberty Prime Sowell has never laid at the feet of government the plight of the black community per se. His biggest complaint isn't that the federal welfare policies are a cause of the plight only that they subsidize them.
That's because there is great evidence it had nothing to do with the lack of social programs and everything to do with the intrusion of government into the markets.
The interviewer is great because he is personally, deeply ENGAGING with his subject, answer by question by answer, not just rifling through a bunch of loaded, pre-scripted questions. He is truly THINKING about each response and leading the subject deeper. Way too short.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. -Thomas Sowell
The awakening of the interviewer is recognizable.
Most of this is anecdotal; not much different than listening to your grandfather tell stories at Thanksgiving: "Things were different when I was young...." Isn't Sowell supposed to be a researcher and an academic?
kepstein8888 He is a very respected academic and you'd knew the answer to your question if you had actually read any of his books. However, I suspect you haven't, yet you are ready to judge him as a whole from one interview. Your comment is much more generalised and uneducated than his most exaggerated anecdotal story (because he can back them up with research).
So where single parenthood tripled 30 years after the introduction of welfare is not research?
You don't get it. The Liberal polices being introduced were why "things aren't like the good 'ol days". That's what he's getting at. Pay attention.
"Liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed 'legacy of slavery' they talk about" ? I won't disagree that some social policies have done more harm than good. But to call the 'legacy of slavery' supposed sounds like it was a slight inconvenience and not a big deal. I don't get it.
"I don't get it". Yes. Yes, that much is evident.
perfectbeat A legacy is something from ones past that defines us some how, with our consent, of cause. We all have stories from our past, some positive & some negative, we have the power to choose which ones we will allow to mold us or influence us. "So call" meaning an event in the past can not control us without our permission. We have the power to control how much power that event will exercise on our daily decisions. In other words we are the captain of our destiny no one and nothing is to be blamed for our failures. Salvery, should be too us as looking in the rear view mirrow while driving, it should only be done occasionally at a glance, what would happen to you if you made the rear view mirrow your primary focus point while driving? Becareful with people who wants to make slavery a major attraction. We can not look back and look forward simultaneously, individually & ultimately we must choose in which direction we want to go. Progress is not looking backwards, but looking forwards with confidence because you have not let your negative past define you.
perfectbeat When he compares the “legacy of slavery” to recent policies, he’s comparing the effects of slavery today. He’s not understating the gross violations of slavery in its time or its aftermath.
perfectbeat I believe it is in quotations to make those that may not believe that slavery existed, feel included. He's very considerate like that
What he's trying to say is that focusing on racism and victimhood has no practical benefit to blacks in the post-civil rights movement era and in fact has been detrimental from a psychological standpoint.
Sowell is on another level - i bought the vision of the anointed and needed a dictonary next to me to read it
14:20 *...that was a very perceptive and brilliant reply given by Sowell.*
Its scary how clear minded this guy is..!
My fathers family was 11 children and my mother's family was 9. All but one of each owned homes following the WAR. Most if not all my cousins who were older owned homes. Many had served in Korea. Many had their own businesses. None ever were on welfare. One was a widow from Korea and was on military pension. None of my Aunt's had to work out side the home. Most of my cousins went on to own businesses and their children went on to college . This was mostly pre welfare of the 60's. Most of my friends had both parents and the majority were stay home mothers of blue collar workers with nice homes in beautiful communities.
That last bash at jesse jackson was very clever and quick.
Thomas Sowell's wise words are needed now more than ever.
Affirmative action was to give more blacks equal opportunity. Failure was to then give discipline with no excuses. Free points ruined all that.
I love this man! When he talks it is music to my ears.
2 tvs and cable today for households under the poverty line, but they wouldn't dare keep their doors unlocked at night.
WOW !!!
As an immigrant who came to the US from parents who didn’t make it past middle school, what Sowell said from 13:00 onwards is criminally underrated.
This is what a brilliant man looks like just in case you're wondering
I read the book about Dunbar. It was a Black school for kids who wanted to go to college or have clerical jobs. Then the old technical-clerical-academic triad of education ended, and every kid was expected to go to college. Dunbar ended up being a third-rate school.
That last quip about Jesse Jackson was sheer brilliance.
Smartest Black man to ever live.