Thomas Sowell
Among the many painful ironies in the current racial turmoil is that
communities scattered across the country were disrupted by riots and looting
because of the demonstrable lie that Michael Brown was shot in the back by a
white policeman in Missouri — but there was not nearly as much turmoil created
by the demonstrable fact that a fleeing black man was shot dead by a white policeman
in South Carolina.
Totally ignored was the fact that a black policeman in Alabama fatally shot an
unarmed white teenager, and was cleared of any charges, at about the same time
that a white policeman was cleared of charges in the fatal shooting of Michael
Brown.
In a world where the truth means so little, and headstrong preconceptions seem
to be all that matter, what hope is there for rational words or rational
behavior, much less mutual understanding across racial lines?......The “legacy of slavery” argument is not just an excuse for inexcusable behavior
in the ghettos. In a larger sense, it is an evasion of responsibility for the
disastrous consequences of the prevailing social vision of our times, and the
political policies based on that vision, over the past half century.......You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements
of civilization — including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility
and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain — without
ruinous consequences to them and to society at large......To Read More.....
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