Why am I only hearing about this man now?? He’s 90!! He should be a role model for all young black men, all men for that matter. True intellect! Can you imagine he lived through the 1960s civil rights movement! Crazy
Navarre Marshall You speak the truth my friend. As a Jew I’ve often been told that I was born into privilege. What privilege? My father was a postal worker and my mother was a low-level hospital administrator. Dad had a massive heart attack in 1971 requiring a pacemaker to be implanted. He was forced to retire early and accept a half pension. From there we were on public assistance and food stamps. Most of my working life was spent as an auto mechanic (after trade school) and then as a blue-collar worker on a heavy truck assembly line. I worked a lot of overtime and sometimes a second job to benefit my family. Yet I was chided by coworkers saying “He’s a Jew! They always do better!“
I have black blood somewhere in my background, along with indigenous blood. I say this to let you know that although I have extensive European blood, I look like a brown man. I've been reading Thomas Sowell since I was in high school in the 1970's. I've been a "conservative" since I could vote. Because of influences like Sowell, I have a 30-year, six-figure, career and a forward-looking attitude about life. I never looked at any of the racist moments I've faced as a hurdle. I looked at them as fuel for my ambition. I work in a position that is far above any white person I work with. This exists because I never relied on anyone to "give me a chance". I took what I wanted and dominated the effort. People of color need to stop begging for scraps and feed their souls on their own.
I am a mexican immigrant (naturalized citizen) and Dr Sowell helped change my ideology from socialism to that of a free market society . Thank you Dr Sowell!
@@c.marquez8821- Socialism is a universal ideology. Growing up in Mexico and going to school in the 70s/80s, most of my teachers talked to us about the "evils" of capitalism and the private sector. Yes, Mexico is not a socialist country, but since the 30s it's had governments that lean left.
Tony Brown asked questions and allowed Sowell to answer them. He had no comment either way. From this interview I have no idea what Tony Brown thought on the subjects presented, if he agreed or disagreed, or even if he liked or disliked Sowell. Exactly how an interview should be conducted.
Tony Brown wants to find out what people think and why. He had a white supremacist eugenicist on his show. As the saying goes "light is the best disinfectant ". All ideas should be allowed to be expressed in the market of ideas. Good ideas get stress tested and made better. Bad ideas get exposed. Love the ability to have public discussion.
Never expect REAL Journalist again. In 1986, My Journalism Professor told me after class that " We were the last of the Mohicans" of the Real, Pure facts Journalist. I remember because of the look of disappointment & sorrow on his face. He DEDICATED His LIFE to this wonderful profession only to SEE IN THE FUTURE His Love STOLEN by THE OPINIONATED, TABLOID PRESS & MEDIA CRAP we are FORCED to EAT & SWALLOW today.
I'm Mexican myself, and I'm glad I heard this......makes you think that it's all in the mindset, sad most people just do things because they see other people do it instead of having an honest conversation to move forward.
Thomas Sowell is a mixed bag. On the one hand he gives valuable insights that are critical to understanding the realities of economics, race, and culture, but on the other hand he consistently makes blatantly biased (often unsound) arguments in favor of certain ideas in order to please those who hold certain political views.
They want us to read “White Fragility” but don’t want us to read “Discrimination and Disparities.” Unfortunately I guess that should tell us everything we need to know...
8:00, Sowell mentioned my tribe.. Amazing this interview was just less than 20 years after a bloody Civil War claimed millions of lives after a targeted pogrom that killed the thousands he mentioned. As part of the reconciliation program, all igbo men received 20 pounds, forfeited their properties and money, yet in less than 20 years became arguably the richest tribe again in post civil war Nigeria. I tried to explain this to an African American who was gloating over the so-called Repatriation promised by Democrats and I was shut down. Most times you have to change cultural choices if you want the results.
Senor Bit do you mean reparation or repatriation? Cos those are two different things. Not taking away from your personal story just asking. I’m glad you’re doing well, or at leas your people are.
How about Nigeria now - the oil wealth is awesome. Nigerians seem entrepreneurial and creative, but sadly the global reputation for online scams isn’t too nice.
@@Qasibr and notice how no one berates them about their past wrongdoings of perpetrating the African slave trade. No one claims they do well because of their oppression of their fellow Africans. But if your a white American your success is due to the oppression of others. The hypocrisy is astounding.
Sowell is the man! I find it funny that many public individuals like Jordan Peterson, Pinker, Haidt, and similar figures, are lauded for being brave and insightful for making powerful points about disparities, race, and inequality, and here we have Sowell, who said the same things decades ago! America would be much better off if his books were in the public school curriculum.
@@theresag1969 i feel YOU are missing the point of these talks. Ending with race at point.....? Just cause they point out issue's with race and culture doesn't mean its only applicable to that race.
The truth that Thomas Sowell is too mind blowing and so true, making him more fearful to the mainstream narrative than many other great figures that you mentioned. Therefore he was muted.
When I was much younger I wanted to learn about racial issues and disparities between blacks and whites just to educate myself and be a better human being. I found Thomas Sowell and Walter William's and I never turned back!!! In my 40's now and with everything going on in the world as of now I'm just like you need some Thomas Sowell in your dome lol...such an unbelievable brilliant mind and I'm a such a better man and human being for it because of the knowledge Thomas Sowell presented to me ✌
I don’t have to slave, I speak 3 difference languages. Is because of yr ass when other black men come to America they have to start all over again. Cuz only thing yr did is being lazy in the richest country in the world and still taking care by the oppressor. Thank you 😊
"Its your skills thats important & not whether or not who hire you..great statement to inspire us on spending more time improving our skills that translate in being more marketable for economical achievements. #rise&grind
@spot light Excuses. People from third world countries barley have shoes on when they get over here. Yet they find a way. They make sacrifices that black culture today think it's too good to do. That allows them to create capital. Black people have over a TRILLION spending power. Capital isn't the problem, neither is business success rate - it's the culture.
At 13:08 Sowell concedes that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s as something largely good that was achieved through politics, while maintaining that most of the time, avoidance of politics and instead working hard and saving money is what has been the primary factor for success. But many of the corrections that the Civil Rights Movement sought were reversals of rules, laws and discriminations that were *brought on by the use of politics in the first place.* So it's important to recognize that politics almost never solves problems brought on by free choice and markets; but when it *does* appear to solve problems, it is almost always "solving" problems that were created by politics in the first place.
Yes! And something I want to add is a quote from The Quest for Cosmic Justice: "In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right". So I think one of the consequences of this mindset, assuming the truth of his quote, is that whenever something is actually made right in society people will credit the government. This is true even when government is the main cause of the problem, and reducing government power is what solved it. Somehow government still gets credit. I mean Jim Crow, the Great Depression, or even the 2015 oil industry bust all snowballed directly from piecemeal government action, yet government is credited with these things being "made right"
Indeed the civil Rights movement was necessary to allow the free market to happen. Man economic regulations especially those brought about in the first half of the 20th century had racist overtones to keep minorities in poverty.
He subsequently pointed out that groups suppressed by politics were still able to succeed when they started businesses and hired each other. Not even politics can keep people down if they choose to rise up. Welfare is a problem caused by politics. Democrats today are promising everyone free stuff. Good luck getting rid of this problem with politics.
@@jimlovesgina Exactly! Even when marginalized and ostracized one can still find prosperity if they are left to only politic with themselves.The Mormons are another example of a group that was shunned by society as a whole and pushed out to the deserts of Utah where there was nothing, and they made it a thriving community. It boils down to values.
Once you come across Thomas Sowell books and essays, your perspective on life, economics and politics changes for good. He is an inspiration honestly, so articulate and factual in his analysis.
"I can't think of a single group, anywhere in the world, that has risen from poverty to affluence through politics. There are any number of groups that have risen from poverty to affluence through almost every other conceivable means. When I look at the groups that have had spectacular rises like the Jews and Chinese they are almost enviably groups that stayed away from politics. ...And they usually stayed away until after they became affluent...." (Thomas Sowell from 1984)
@spot light he never rose higher because he stuck to his principles and DID NOT SELL OUT to the progressive elites in power positions within the university ranks. They are a bunch of pansies who sold out to the whole bullshit theory of "white privilege" that is required to be included among the elite. It's that crap that's tearing at our country's fabric. Black people are given more advantage than whites, so are foreign exchange students and all women, especially of color. Look around, their are approximately 4 whites to every one black person yet there is not a lack of black success stories. The biggest problem in every community is the loss of men raising children with the mothers. The second the extremely high drop out rate from high school, which most attribute to the number one problem and the third problem is unplanned sex leading to parenthood before being maturely employed. If a young person of any race wants to avoid poverty the fathers need to step up, the kid needs to excel or at least complete high school and avoid parenthood until financially stable. Simple as that. Racism is practically dead in America. I'm nearly 60 years old, I've seen the change.
Some people continue using the race card because it's their last weak attempt at controlling the narrative- the one where white people hold minorities back through "systemic oppression". Excuses are easier than efforts, the path to least resistance. Sometimes people try to tell me I'm oppressed because I'm Latino, I tell them to fuck off.
What is extraordinary about Dr. Thomas Sowell is he uses evidence to formulate is opinions, not emotion or tradition which has become the hallmark of most black political thought. The disparity between racial groups is "because the incentives created by affirmative action and similar types of programs had made it too dangerous to take a chance." For those who want affirmative action today this has already been the tested outcome. Btw, what many black people don't know is when blacks were shut out of certain industries and whites wouldn't hire them it was Jews who would train and mentor some blacks to acquire the necessary training and/or experience in order to get the job or take the test to get the job.
Those same incentives are present among all races yet we see disparate outcomes still. That's because we evolved over tens of thousands of years to have differing abilities and traits. Sowell will never be honest about the genetic causes of differences because of his own identity.
@spot light You should learn to read better and especially all of Thomas Sowell's books, then read other books by noted economists such as Walter Williams. Or not read and stay on the plantation of victimhood, in the hood.
I love the fact Dr. Sowell says in 12:12 that no group rises to affluence via politics. He goes on the say "work, skills and saving" result in affluence.
This is a man who knows how to think. Looks only at facts, digs deep to find the truth. Doesn't buy into surface statements. God bless him, really. My generation needs to learn about Thomas Sowell!
I’ve heard and read so many of the flattering compliments of Sowell. But, his brilliant mind is actually an overshadow to how handsome the damn guy is. Sowell’s a stud. Hollywood did themselves a real “injustice” in not promoting a man like this. He’s just a bad bad man, in so many regards...
In essence, align your education with the job market, build skills and work hard and diligently if you wish to succeed - simple, time-tested lesson that ages well.
The Biggest factor: Having BOTH caring parents present in the home. It's that simple. Love makes families successful. Race is irrelevant against this strength. That's why mixed families are doing great. (This view is from the supra-macro perspective)
It's interesting that you say that. A few hours ago I was perusing the Black Lives Matter website and found a statement claiming that BLM is fighting to deconstruct the Western family structure and replacing it with a communal/tribal/village aspect to family and child rearing. An interesting idea, no doubt. I wonder what comments Sowell would have on that idea.
Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest American thinkers of our lifetime. He is an American treasure and his works should be approved for teaching methods across the American curriculum.
light exactly. Anti-black racism is very real and this "economist" makes it seek like we aren't working hard enough. Glad I understand politics and economics. Need to understand both.
Dr. Sowell had the issues of black advancement nailed almost 35 years ago. No matter how many blacks have political power, it will have very little ability to advance the economic futures of the mass of black, although it will massively advance the welfare of blacks that are in power. As an example, the Detroit public schools are run almost exclusively by blacks and the teachers are almost exclusively black, yet it's only those two groups that economically advanced. Teachers and administrators are paid some of the highest salaries in the nation while the schools are failing and falling further behind each year. Only about 40% of blacks graduate high school, and about 50% of the black population is functionally illiterate. Those are the structural problems that need to be solved, not the constant drumbeat that racism is to blame for everything. Unless black school administrators and teachers are racist against other black, there have to be other answers.
Nor is it unique to blacks. Look at the Irish in the mid 19th century in the US. They were stuck in poverty while some Irish leaders gained great wealth and power by exploiting their own people.
@spot light hiring people based on a demographic instead of ability is not a recipe for a successful business. Just because one is a minority does not mean one deserves a job, nor does it mean oppression when one is not hired. The results of lawsuits are not concrete facts, especially where the laws are corrupt, the courts are corrupt, the entire legal system is based on who has more money. Our legal system is pay to play. Stop being racist and look at facts, you are smarter than that.
Sowell is a remarkable fellow. He was born into North Carolina Black poverty in 1930 and so turns 90 this year. His family moved to New York City around 1940. Upon graduating from high school, he enlisted in the US Army, rising to the rank of seargent and seeing action during the Korean War. He then attended Harvard and majored in economics. He later claimed that he was a Marxist during his Harvard years. At Harvard, he had a very bad economics lecturer, who made a lot more sense during his office hours. This lecturer advised Sowell to do his PhD at the University of Chicago. He put that advice into effect, finishing his PhD in 1968; George Stigler was his supervisor. A big hobby of Stigler's was the history of economic thought, and Sowell is his most distinguished student in that area. Sowell taught at UCLA for some years; my mentor Roger Kormendi took his hard course in the history of economic thought. For the past 45 years or so, Sowell has been at the Hoover Institution on Stanford's campus. He has written many books (I own a few of them), and is perhaps THE authority on the common sense economics of racial divisions. Sowell is probably the founder of respectable African American conservative social science. Walter Williams was one of his UCLA students. Shelby Steele surely has read Sowell. The right wing black CZcamsr Candace Owens acknowledges Sowell, Williams and Steele as important influences. Sowell may have influenced Glenn Loury. CZcams reveals that there are pro-Trump blacks. In my Chicago days and elsewhere, I have met very traditionalist blacks, who are full of disdain for the high rates of crime, drug use, single motherhood and carefree sex among African Americans.
The big mistake for black communities we know all Martin Luther king but we ignore the most important and powerful for Us THOMAS SOWELL Him is Wonderful.
Thomas Sowell is ridiculously talented at debate. Calm, calculated, articulate, informed, etc... Greatest skill a man can master is debate and he’s got it.
This is to be heard by every single human! Even if it takes an adult to explain to young children what he is saying, children would question the education system’s common narrative that people are suppressed because of the colour of their skin. This man has been a light in my life and win a Nobel Prize for wisdom to the masses.
I never get tired of listening to anyone who speaks with such clarify. His Words and thoughts come from a place of immense power called the TRUTH. I also like Red Foxes take on it, and I qoute " The Best way to get on your feet is to get off your a**".
@@AtipicalDelivery there's a difference between telling people what they don't want to hear, and making baseless claims. The claim that Asians over-achieved is meant Asians as a whole...coming to a different country and being successful. You could be a complete waste of air for all we know.
@spot light I won't piss in your pocket and tell you that blacks aren't descriminated against. I would however fight back against them being descriminated against for no reason. Sorry dude it's hard to interact with a substantial proportion of the black community, and it is easier to just not deal with them at all. Sorry. Thomas Sowell is a nice person, but he is a shit leader for blacks. He just offers Jewish economics in black skin. Black's need to listen to Louis farrakan and pastor manning, and create community for themselves for their own benifit. And they need societial level enforment of behavior standards.
@spot light you obviously have a left wing mindset of race. Blacks are lazy and thats why they suffer, black people who work hard are better off. And your example sucks, Thomas Sowell is ignored because he is a conservative and the left would never let him into the spot light. Just look at all the famous leftwing black comedians and actors and rappers
@@AnarchyEnsues "It's hard to interact with a SUBSTANTIAL portion of the black community..." There are roughly 40 mil black Americans in the US. How many of those 40 mil have you had first hand experience interacting with? We'd have to believe a very high percentage in order for you to seriously make such an assertion about an entire population of people.
It's because he has more integrity than any human alive. He is far too uncompromising to ever fit comfortably into anyone else's "club". (I just finished his autobiography, by the way. It's fantastic, and reminds me of the type of person I want to be)
When he mentioned Irish are more suitable to work for people rather than doing business. That is so precise. Ireland GDP per capita skyrocketed like crazy during the 90s thanks to the EU bringing in large amount of Foreign Direct Investments. It shows that prior to the EU with not many FDI's coming in and they have to rely on the locals. They were doing fine, but they wasnt as wealthy as other advanced nation. But when new jobs from foreign companies came into the country. They excel like crazy.
this guy is one of the most intelligent people on this planet..leaders should be asking this guy for advise..from what ive seen and experienced most leaders are completly clueless..
I always love when he presents on the subject especially talking about the difference between political power and economic power. You can look at two different white ethnic groups who migrated to the US. Take the Irish and Germans. The Irish achieved massive political power however their economic rise was slow. However Germans who had little political power rose quickly. The Irish who arrived were largely unskilled. The Germans however were skilled tradesman. Human Capital is the key.
What's the human capital of a people who have been in the country for centuries yet are still low IQ, commit most of the crime and have very high illegitimacy rates? Not much. Nor will it ever be.
@@anathema2me4EVR Slow down there buddy. Blacks weren't always like you see them today. The blacks for the last 70 years have been devolving because of a switch in Ideology. They went from Booker T Washington to W.E.B. Dubois.
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"If you're able to set up your on farms, your own businesses, be in independent professions, it (cultural assimilation) doesn't really matter that much. But if you have to go out and work for someone else, then you much know his language; you must know how his culture operates for you to operate in it." 8:54 T.S.
Thomas Sowell was born in 1930 that makes him 54 years old in this video (1984). He barely looks 30 years old in this video.
Jeez, you ain't kidding, I assumed he was late 20s or early 30s here
Black dont crack
Wow you’re right that’s impressive 🙌
Black dont crack
Wooooow he looks young as hell lol
Why am I only hearing about this man now?? He’s 90!! He should be a role model for all young black men, all men for that matter. True intellect! Can you imagine he lived through the 1960s civil rights movement! Crazy
So but black community have people like 2pac, Beyonce or Jay z sad for us. We need people like him
Leftists have absolutely infected the school system. They run the majority of the show when it comes to public education.
The failure to recognize Thomas Sowell as one of the leading black intellectual thinkers of our generation is a tragedy.
A you’re not supposed to have role models. You’re supposed to be a dependent of the democrat plantation.
He'd be called an Uncle Tom.
Thomas Sewell makes me more proud to be a black man in America. Excellent role model
Navarre Marshall You speak the truth my friend. As a Jew I’ve often been told that I was born into privilege. What privilege? My father was a postal worker and my mother was a low-level hospital administrator. Dad had a massive heart attack in 1971 requiring a pacemaker to be implanted. He was forced to retire early and accept a half pension. From there we were on public assistance and food stamps. Most of my working life was spent as an auto mechanic (after trade school) and then as a blue-collar worker on a heavy truck assembly line. I worked a lot of overtime and sometimes a second job to benefit my family. Yet I was chided by coworkers saying “He’s a Jew! They always do better!“
@@recoveringnewyorker2243 That's horrible.
@noah marietta So you want a world of ignorance ? That ignorance paves the way to hatred that can't be contained.
I have black blood somewhere in my background, along with indigenous blood. I say this to let you know that although I have extensive European blood, I look like a brown man.
I've been reading Thomas Sowell since I was in high school in the 1970's. I've been a "conservative" since I could vote. Because of influences like Sowell, I have a 30-year, six-figure, career and a forward-looking attitude about life. I never looked at any of the racist moments I've faced as a hurdle. I looked at them as fuel for my ambition.
I work in a position that is far above any white person I work with. This exists because I never relied on anyone to "give me a chance". I took what I wanted and dominated the effort. People of color need to stop begging for scraps and feed their souls on their own.
God bless you and the United States.
I am a mexican immigrant (naturalized citizen) and Dr Sowell helped change my ideology from socialism to that of a free market society .
Thank you Dr Sowell!
Awesome, glad to hear!
Why did you have socialism views if Mexico is not socialist?
@@c.marquez8821- Socialism is a universal ideology. Growing up in Mexico and going to school in the 70s/80s, most of my teachers talked to us about the "evils" of capitalism and the private sector. Yes, Mexico is not a socialist country, but since the 30s it's had governments that lean left.
Oh ok thank you!
@@c.marquez8821- You're welcome.
Tony Brown is being a real journalist. I would not expect a modern host on most TV stations would treat Dr. Sowell with this kind of fairness.
Tony Brown asked questions and allowed Sowell to answer them. He had no comment either way. From this interview I have no idea what Tony Brown thought on the subjects presented, if he agreed or disagreed, or even if he liked or disliked Sowell. Exactly how an interview should be conducted.
Lurker1979 very true
In this day they would call him a racist
Tony Brown wants to find out what people think and why. He had a white supremacist eugenicist on his show. As the saying goes "light is the best disinfectant ". All ideas should be allowed to be expressed in the market of ideas. Good ideas get stress tested and made better. Bad ideas get exposed. Love the ability to have public discussion.
Looking at Larry Elder interviews, it seems they’re under a spell; like they’re hearing truth for the first time.
Never expect REAL Journalist again. In 1986, My Journalism Professor told me after class that " We were the last of the Mohicans" of the Real, Pure facts Journalist. I remember because of the look of disappointment & sorrow on his face. He DEDICATED His LIFE to this wonderful profession only to SEE IN THE FUTURE His Love STOLEN by THE OPINIONATED, TABLOID PRESS & MEDIA CRAP we are FORCED to EAT & SWALLOW today.
And he’s saying the same thing today bc the history hasn’t change and we still haven’t changed the narrative
@spot light
If you can't comprehend what he is saying then just say that. Otherwise, continue watching cartoons.
@spot light when, where and what race oppressed you into being an idiot?
@spot light
So what do you comprehend then smart guy?
@spot light
You are literally making the case being proposed.
spot light constantly giving fake apologies while you brag emptily about comprehension you don’t possess shows the kind of person you are very well.
“If you put in an enormous amout of work you’re going to have a tremendous advantage over those who don’t”
I'm Mexican myself, and I'm glad I heard this......makes you think that it's all in the mindset, sad most people just do things because they see other people do it instead of having an honest conversation to move forward.
The World Won't truly appreciate this man until he's gone. That's a shame because he's one of the most Brilliant Minds of our time
Thomas Sowell is a mixed bag. On the one hand he gives valuable insights that are critical to understanding the realities of economics, race, and culture, but on the other hand he consistently makes blatantly biased (often unsound) arguments in favor of certain ideas in order to please those who hold certain political views.
They want us to read “White Fragility” but don’t want us to read “Discrimination and Disparities.” Unfortunately I guess that should tell us everything we need to know...
Wow, that's crazy.
8:00, Sowell mentioned my tribe.. Amazing this interview was just less than 20 years after a bloody Civil War claimed millions of lives after a targeted pogrom that killed the thousands he mentioned. As part of the reconciliation program, all igbo men received 20 pounds, forfeited their properties and money, yet in less than 20 years became arguably the richest tribe again in post civil war Nigeria.
I tried to explain this to an African American who was gloating over the so-called Repatriation promised by Democrats and I was shut down.
Most times you have to change cultural choices if you want the results.
Senor Bit do you mean reparation or repatriation? Cos those are two different things. Not taking away from your personal story just asking. I’m glad you’re doing well, or at leas your people are.
How about Nigeria now - the oil wealth is awesome. Nigerians seem entrepreneurial and creative, but sadly the global reputation for online scams isn’t too nice.
Wow ma awesome real life story thanks for sharing.
@@Qasibr and notice how no one berates them about their past wrongdoings of perpetrating the African slave trade. No one claims they do well because of their oppression of their fellow Africans. But if your a white American your success is due to the oppression of others. The hypocrisy is astounding.
Sowell is the man! I find it funny that many public individuals like Jordan Peterson, Pinker, Haidt, and similar figures, are lauded for being brave and insightful for making powerful points about disparities, race, and inequality, and here we have Sowell, who said the same things decades ago! America would be much better off if his books were in the public school curriculum.
Where do you think they got their educated? Every generations need a Tom Sowell, today we have one in the face of Jordon Peterson for white people.
@@theresag1969 i feel YOU are missing the point of these talks. Ending with race at point.....? Just cause they point out issue's with race and culture doesn't mean its only applicable to that race.
The truth that Thomas Sowell is too mind blowing and so true, making him more fearful to the mainstream narrative than many other great figures that you mentioned. Therefore he was muted.
@@D.Will.C.
Everyone who comes alone is not a carbon copy of the original and tend to speak to what is needed at the time.
Ben Smith I actually think that Pinker has stated that he believes that Sowell is the most underrated intellectual of our generation.
When I was much younger I wanted to learn about racial issues and disparities between blacks and whites just to educate myself and be a better human being. I found Thomas Sowell and Walter William's and I never turned back!!! In my 40's now and with everything going on in the world as of now I'm just like you need some Thomas Sowell in your dome lol...such an unbelievable brilliant mind and I'm a such a better man and human being for it because of the knowledge Thomas Sowell presented to me ✌
Good on you. Pass the knowledge around. Keep the facts in plain sight, it is one way to combat emotional thinking.
love that.
Learn a skill in high demand , develop an acumen to market and leverage this skill , create institutions to employ your own
Literally that simple.
@@jetsonfranco I don't think that's entirely true, for instance you need a very high IQ to be a phyisist! And that's partly genetic.
Aww...common sense..based on reason..and proven to be successful for many. No rights nor wrongs..just simple truth. How refreshing. Thank you..
@@mavhunter8753 physicists aren't creating jobs.
@@mavhunter8753 Wow, talk about missing the point! 🤦♂️
Who've watched this at least 10 times and still hunger for more?
Ikr its so good, I keep rewatching so I dont forget the logic
I can't get enough of this man. He really inspires me to crave more of his perspective.
I have great respect for mr sowell. We wasn’t born poor, they train people the physiological of rich and poor. We all abundant 😃😃💪🏾💪🏾
Good Lord bro....go back to English class...damn smh
I don’t have to slave, I speak 3 difference languages. Is because of yr ass when other black men come to America they have to start all over again. Cuz only thing yr did is being lazy in the richest country in the world and still taking care by the oppressor. Thank you 😊
Teach yourself to speak proper English.
"Its your skills thats important & not whether or not who hire you..great statement to inspire us on spending more time improving our skills that translate in being more marketable for economical achievements. #rise&grind
@spot light Skills >>>>>
Why are black people even seeking employment from whites when they have the skills to employ themselves?
@spot light Which is why consistency matters.
@spot light Black people did it before. And other people are coming to America with barely any shoes on and doing it. No excuses.
@spot light Excuses. People from third world countries barley have shoes on when they get over here. Yet they find a way. They make sacrifices that black culture today think it's too good to do. That allows them to create capital. Black people have over a TRILLION spending power. Capital isn't the problem, neither is business success rate - it's the culture.
At 13:08 Sowell concedes that the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s as something largely good that was achieved through politics, while maintaining that most of the time, avoidance of politics and instead working hard and saving money is what has been the primary factor for success. But many of the corrections that the Civil Rights Movement sought were reversals of rules, laws and discriminations that were *brought on by the use of politics in the first place.* So it's important to recognize that politics almost never solves problems brought on by free choice and markets; but when it *does* appear to solve problems, it is almost always "solving" problems that were created by politics in the first place.
Yes! And something I want to add is a quote from The Quest for Cosmic Justice:
"In politics, the great non-sequitur of our time is that 1) things are not right and that 2) the government should make them right".
So I think one of the consequences of this mindset, assuming the truth of his quote, is that whenever something is actually made right in society people will credit the government. This is true even when government is the main cause of the problem, and reducing government power is what solved it. Somehow government still gets credit. I mean Jim Crow, the Great Depression, or even the 2015 oil industry bust all snowballed directly from piecemeal government action, yet government is credited with these things being "made right"
Indeed the civil Rights movement was necessary to allow the free market to happen. Man economic regulations especially those brought about in the first half of the 20th century had racist overtones to keep minorities in poverty.
He subsequently pointed out that groups suppressed by politics were still able to succeed when they started businesses and hired each other. Not even politics can keep people down if they choose to rise up. Welfare is a problem caused by politics. Democrats today are promising everyone free stuff. Good luck getting rid of this problem with politics.
@@jimlovesgina Exactly! Even when marginalized and ostracized one can still find prosperity if they are left to only politic with themselves.The Mormons are another example of a group that was shunned by society as a whole and pushed out to the deserts of Utah where there was nothing, and they made it a thriving community. It boils down to values.
@spot light why are you worried about shit you've never experienced? do you know what year it is?
Sheer brilliance from this man each and everytime I listen to him.
Courtney Ellis but all of his numbers are incorrect?
@@marshallbrooks312 how
I never get tried of hearing this man speak. True legend.
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Just a brilliant, brilliant man.
Opinions and facts based on data not emotions. A true economist.
And for those precise reasons he's been deliberately overlooked by the civil rights "leadership".
Once you come across Thomas Sowell books and essays, your perspective on life, economics and politics changes for good. He is an inspiration honestly, so articulate and factual in his analysis.
Underrated Legend
This man is such a legend. Will be a very sad day when he passes
Please let’s not even think of this
"I can't think of a single group, anywhere in the world, that has risen from poverty to affluence through politics. There are any number of groups that have risen from poverty to affluence through almost every other conceivable means. When I look at the groups that have had spectacular rises like the Jews and Chinese they are almost enviably groups that stayed away from politics. ...And they usually stayed away until after they became affluent...." (Thomas Sowell from 1984)
Every time.... Just lays it down like a boss
The man!
Thank God for Tony Brown, we all learned a lot growing up, with his show.
TRUTH! Thomas Sowell is a TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT 🙏🏽🇺🇸🙏🏽
Sir Thomas once again speaking the wise truth. Respect from a Ukie Canadian
I am Asian. This is the best motivational speech I have ever come across.
❤️ a very empowering message for everyone.
Every time I hear Thomas Sowell speak whether on video or live I come away more impressed by him and with more respect for him. He educates me.
Sowell is one of the all time great social economic thinkers in history.
@spot light he never rose higher because he stuck to his principles and DID NOT SELL OUT to the progressive elites in power positions within the university ranks. They are a bunch of pansies who sold out to the whole bullshit theory of "white privilege" that is required to be included among the elite. It's that crap that's tearing at our country's fabric. Black people are given more advantage than whites, so are foreign exchange students and all women, especially of color. Look around, their are approximately 4 whites to every one black person yet there is not a lack of black success stories. The biggest problem in every community is the loss of men raising children with the mothers. The second the extremely high drop out rate from high school, which most attribute to the number one problem and the third problem is unplanned sex leading to parenthood before being maturely employed. If a young person of any race wants to avoid poverty the fathers need to step up, the kid needs to excel or at least complete high school and avoid parenthood until financially stable. Simple as that. Racism is practically dead in America. I'm nearly 60 years old, I've seen the change.
Some people continue using the race card because it's their last weak attempt at controlling the narrative- the one where white people hold minorities back through "systemic oppression". Excuses are easier than efforts, the path to least resistance.
Sometimes people try to tell me I'm oppressed because I'm Latino, I tell them to fuck off.
What is extraordinary about Dr. Thomas Sowell is he uses evidence to formulate is opinions, not emotion or tradition which has become the hallmark of most black political thought.
The disparity between racial groups is "because the incentives created by affirmative action and similar types of programs had made it too dangerous to take a chance."
For those who want affirmative action today this has already been the tested outcome.
Btw, what many black people don't know is when blacks were shut out of certain industries and whites wouldn't hire them it was Jews who would train and mentor some blacks to acquire the necessary training and/or experience in order to get the job or take the test to get the job.
Those same incentives are present among all races yet we see disparate outcomes still. That's because we evolved over tens of thousands of years to have differing abilities and traits. Sowell will never be honest about the genetic causes of differences because of his own identity.
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Where is your evidences, Mr. Researcher.
You simply want to look down on people to make you feel superior. I get that.
@spot light
I hope he opened your eyes.
@spot light
You should learn to read better and especially all of Thomas Sowell's books, then read other books by noted economists such as Walter Williams. Or not read and stay on the plantation of victimhood, in the hood.
I love the fact Dr. Sowell says in 12:12 that no group rises to affluence via politics. He goes on the say "work, skills and saving" result in affluence.
This is a man who knows how to think. Looks only at facts, digs deep to find the truth. Doesn't buy into surface statements. God bless him, really. My generation needs to learn about Thomas Sowell!
what a great interview i was impressed with the questions, just as much as the answers
I’ve heard and read so many of the flattering compliments of Sowell. But, his brilliant mind is actually an overshadow to how handsome the damn guy is. Sowell’s a stud. Hollywood did themselves a real “injustice” in not promoting a man like this. He’s just a bad bad man, in so many regards...
In essence, align your education with the job market, build skills and work hard and diligently if you wish to succeed - simple, time-tested lesson that ages well.
Dr. Sowell is one of the most intelligent and informed persons (of ANY race) in the United States. Huge salute & respect to him!
Sowell is brilliant & a gentleman.
The Biggest factor: Having BOTH caring parents present in the home. It's that simple. Love makes families successful. Race is irrelevant against this strength. That's why mixed families are doing great. (This view is from the supra-macro perspective)
It's interesting that you say that. A few hours ago I was perusing the Black Lives Matter website and found a statement claiming that BLM is fighting to deconstruct the Western family structure and replacing it with a communal/tribal/village aspect to family and child rearing. An interesting idea, no doubt. I wonder what comments Sowell would have on that idea.
It’s plenty of ppl with both parents in the home who come out “bad apples”....
@@miguellott20 there are exceptions to every rule.
how can one man be this smart. you should see his academic smack down in the gender pay gap video.
Thomas Sowell is awesome.
Thomas Sowell is one of the greatest American thinkers of our lifetime. He is an American treasure and his works should be approved for teaching methods across the American curriculum.
One of my absolute favorite thinkers, and one of the most important thinkers of our time.
The value of work and perseverance, Y'all.
light exactly. Anti-black racism is very real and this "economist" makes it seek like we aren't working hard enough. Glad I understand politics and economics. Need to understand both.
Brilliance personified.
Excellent role model and a true intellect.
An interesting, respectful conversation on ideas by two intelligent, articulate men.
A brilliant clip that I keep coming back to again and again
Watching this in 2020!
Such a brilliant mind. He along with Milton Friedman are the reason I became a conservative.
Sadly not libertarian
Dr. Sowell had the issues of black advancement nailed almost 35 years ago. No matter how many blacks have political power, it will have very little ability to advance the economic futures of the mass of black, although it will massively advance the welfare of blacks that are in power.
As an example, the Detroit public schools are run almost exclusively by blacks and the teachers are almost exclusively black, yet it's only those two groups that economically advanced. Teachers and administrators are paid some of the highest salaries in the nation while the schools are failing and falling further behind each year. Only about 40% of blacks graduate high school, and about 50% of the black population is functionally illiterate. Those are the structural problems that need to be solved, not the constant drumbeat that racism is to blame for everything. Unless black school administrators and teachers are racist against other black, there have to be other answers.
Black teachers and administrators are racist against other blacks blaming them for this ignorance when they are paid to teach them.
Nor is it unique to blacks. Look at the Irish in the mid 19th century in the US. They were stuck in poverty while some Irish leaders gained great wealth and power by exploiting their own people.
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That's was essentially what Thomas Sowell said, except he add they gravitated to certain areas.
spot light nor black racism
@spot light hiring people based on a demographic instead of ability is not a recipe for a successful business. Just because one is a minority does not mean one deserves a job, nor does it mean oppression when one is not hired.
The results of lawsuits are not concrete facts, especially where the laws are corrupt, the courts are corrupt, the entire legal system is based on who has more money. Our legal system is pay to play.
Stop being racist and look at facts, you are smarter than that.
Sowell is a remarkable fellow.
He was born into North Carolina Black poverty in 1930 and so turns 90 this year. His family moved to New York City around 1940. Upon graduating from high school, he enlisted in the US Army, rising to the rank of seargent and seeing action during the Korean War. He then attended Harvard and majored in economics. He later claimed that he was a Marxist during his Harvard years. At Harvard, he had a very bad economics lecturer, who made a lot more sense during his office hours. This lecturer advised Sowell to do his PhD at the University of Chicago. He put that advice into effect, finishing his PhD in 1968; George Stigler was his supervisor. A big hobby of Stigler's was the history of economic thought, and Sowell is his most distinguished student in that area. Sowell taught at UCLA for some years; my mentor Roger Kormendi took his hard course in the history of economic thought. For the past 45 years or so, Sowell has been at the Hoover Institution on Stanford's campus. He has written many books (I own a few of them), and is perhaps THE authority on the common sense economics of racial divisions. Sowell is probably the founder of respectable African American conservative social science. Walter Williams was one of his UCLA students. Shelby Steele surely has read Sowell. The right wing black CZcamsr Candace Owens acknowledges Sowell, Williams and Steele as important influences. Sowell may have influenced Glenn Loury. CZcams reveals that there are pro-Trump blacks. In my Chicago days and elsewhere, I have met very traditionalist blacks, who are full of disdain for the high rates of crime, drug use, single motherhood and carefree sex among African Americans.
He so right and ive been saying this
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Damn this is one educated and well spoken man !!!!!
40 years ago and we’re still talking about the same thing.
The big mistake for black communities we know all Martin Luther king but we ignore the most important and powerful for Us THOMAS SOWELL Him is Wonderful.
He is a treasure, for us all!.. What a man!
Amazing stuff. Everybody needs to watch this
Tomas Sowell is on another level brilliant.
Thank you Dr. Thomas Sowell for my Daly dose of Sowell. Always appreciate your Real History Lesson. All day long Yahoo
Thomas Sowell is ridiculously talented at debate. Calm, calculated, articulate, informed, etc...
Greatest skill a man can master is debate and he’s got it.
Been my inspiration regarding economics
I do hope one day I can meet this brilliant elder, Dr. Sowell.
This is to be heard by every single human! Even if it takes an adult to explain to young children what he is saying, children would question the education system’s common narrative that people are suppressed because of the colour of their skin. This man has been a light in my life and win a Nobel Prize for wisdom to the masses.
God blessed this man with a mind that can think, and see life for what it really is.
Brilliant man and an excellent interview.
very intelligent man. love listening to him educate.
I never get tired of listening to anyone who speaks with such clarify. His Words and thoughts come from a place of immense power called the TRUTH. I also like Red Foxes take on it, and I qoute " The Best way to get on your feet is to get off your a**".
He is so smart. Love him
How's Thomas only caught on in small numbers? Simply brilliant.
cause he low-key racists towards his own people IMO, but wtf do i know as an "over-achieving Asian"
@@AtipicalDelivery there's a difference between telling people what they don't want to hear, and making baseless claims. The claim that Asians over-achieved is meant Asians as a whole...coming to a different country and being successful. You could be a complete waste of air for all we know.
Thomas Sowell , nobody is coming close to filling your shoes.
So sad.
The relaxed common sense and gentle humor is rare.
He is a product of Friedman, he is not original. You can’t expect people to fill his shoes.
The myth, the legend. Stating facts and using logic against the libs before we were even born... Dr. Tomas Sowell!!!
@spot light I won't piss in your pocket and tell you that blacks aren't descriminated against. I would however fight back against them being descriminated against for no reason. Sorry dude it's hard to interact with a substantial proportion of the black community, and it is easier to just not deal with them at all.
Sorry.
Thomas Sowell is a nice person, but he is a shit leader for blacks. He just offers Jewish economics in black skin.
Black's need to listen to Louis farrakan and pastor manning, and create community for themselves for their own benifit. And they need societial level enforment of behavior standards.
@spot light a race sellout? Maybe Black people are suffering because they are lazy and immortal, stop blaming white people for all the problems
@spot light you obviously have a left wing mindset of race. Blacks are lazy and thats why they suffer, black people who work hard are better off. And your example sucks, Thomas Sowell is ignored because he is a conservative and the left would never let him into the spot light. Just look at all the famous leftwing black comedians and actors and rappers
Oh Yeah, Stating white Supremacy Think tank " bullshit facts.
@@AnarchyEnsues "It's hard to interact with a SUBSTANTIAL portion of the black community..." There are roughly 40 mil black Americans in the US. How many of those 40 mil have you had first hand experience interacting with? We'd have to believe a very high percentage in order for you to seriously make such an assertion about an entire population of people.
This man was a prophet! Tony is great!!
The always articulate and insightful Dr. Thomas Sowell .
Thomas Sowell is solid gold ! Why has he never won a Nobel prize in economics ? I guess it must be systemic racism and affirmative action.
It's because he has more integrity than any human alive. He is far too uncompromising to ever fit comfortably into anyone else's "club".
(I just finished his autobiography, by the way. It's fantastic, and reminds me of the type of person I want to be)
Think of who makes up the Nobel board, the same ones who gave the prize to Arafat, Carter and Obama
Fuck the Nobel Prize. Same for the Oscars.
Because paid mouthpieces of the white supreamcy have been paid enough money.
@Ring-a-ding-ding baby It's still 850k( Swedish currency) and 1.1 Mill USD..
When he mentioned Irish are more suitable to work for people rather than doing business. That is so precise. Ireland GDP per capita skyrocketed like crazy during the 90s thanks to the EU bringing in large amount of Foreign Direct Investments. It shows that prior to the EU with not many FDI's coming in and they have to rely on the locals. They were doing fine, but they wasnt as wealthy as other advanced nation. But when new jobs from foreign companies came into the country. They excel like crazy.
I wish they teach this in schools.
One of the Brightest mind in our time !!
This man has the ability to see things how they are not how he's.
Big love and respect for you Sir!!!
His memory capacity is phenomenal.
this guy is one of the most intelligent people on this planet..leaders should be asking this guy for advise..from what ive seen and experienced most leaders are completly clueless..
Dammit. I need to meet this man immediately
Happy Birthday Mr Sowell
I always love when he presents on the subject especially talking about the difference between political power and economic power. You can look at two different white ethnic groups who migrated to the US. Take the Irish and Germans. The Irish achieved massive political power however their economic rise was slow. However Germans who had little political power rose quickly. The Irish who arrived were largely unskilled. The Germans however were skilled tradesman. Human Capital is the key.
What's the human capital of a people who have been in the country for centuries yet are still low IQ, commit most of the crime and have very high illegitimacy rates?
Not much. Nor will it ever be.
Brian Schwatka Sounds like planning, preparation and training are key. Forethought.
@@anathema2me4EVR Slow down there buddy. Blacks weren't always like you see them today. The blacks for the last 70 years have been devolving because of a switch in Ideology. They went from Booker T Washington to W.E.B. Dubois.
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I come back to this video every now and then. So much wisdom for the ages
A living legend.
What an amazing intelligent man!
Genius
A MASTER CLASS
Respect for Thomas! Especially In these days, we need more people like him!
"If you're able to set up your on farms, your own businesses, be in independent professions, it (cultural assimilation) doesn't really matter that much. But if you have to go out and work for someone else, then you much know his language; you must know how his culture operates for you to operate in it."
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T.S.
TS CHANGED MY LIFE
I as well brother.
A Trans Sexual changed your life?? 😂
We need to educate our current population. Follow the facts.
Thank you Dr Sowell
An absolutely brilliant man
12:00 brilliance