Race Politics and Lies (Thomas Sowell)

[Newt]

More clear thinking from an American treasure.

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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?

When the recorded fatal shooting of a fleeing man in South Carolina brought instant condemnation by whites and blacks alike, and by the most conservative as well as the most liberal commentators, that moment of mutual understanding was very fleeting, as if mutual understanding were something to be avoided, as a threat to a vision of "us against them" that was more popular.

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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.

Non-judgmental subsidies of counterproductive lifestyles are treating people as if they were livestock, to be fed and tended by others in a welfare state -- and yet expecting them to develop as human beings have developed when facing the challenges of life themselves."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomasso ... s-n1994127

All current societal problems today are the direct result of DEM pandering to vulnerable people in exchange for their unacknowledged vote.

I don't hate the vulnerable people for being taken in by these corrupt tactics, but I do hate the DEM leadership who knowingly advance their dysfunctional agenda in the face of the obvious failure and unimaginable misery that it creates.


Senator Reid: Sure I lied, it worked.

[bluemouse]

All the while obabbler was giving another poor we speach in NY, they pulled the plug on the brave officer shot in the face a few days earlier. not a peep of ackowledgement from obabbler.