Why Blacks Have So Much Today and Are Still Poor
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- Despite centuries of slavery, decades of Jim Crow laws, and ongoing policies that have resulted in substandard conditions in many inner-city areas, Tom argues that it's not straightforward to assign blame for the disparities faced by African American children born in inner cities today. Drawing comparisons between the material conditions of black children now and in the past, such as the experiences of renowned surgeon Ben Carson, Tom emphasizes the importance of education and the role it plays in overcoming these challenges.
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Final word is, Our American children do have MORE MATERIAL THINGS....but suffer from LESS EDUCATION, and FAMILY SECURITY.
Malcolm X explained the Black community years ago.
He said " You're in no moral position to criticize the White man because you don't control the economy in your community". " You don't open stores and businesses in your community. You'll let anyone come in and take over the economy in your community ". " You are worth 20 billion dollars of spending power but will not open stores and businesses in the Black community". " When you allow someone else to control the economy in your community a slum condition occurs ".
That someone else that controls the economy in the Black community today are Koreans, Chinese and Arabs businesses.
And today Black spending power is 1.7 trillion dollars per year.
Father Malcolm was 1,400 years ahead of his damn time. May he RIP ❤
Allowed? More like asked via Civil Rights movement because white people wanted white people in their communities and blacks wanted to integrate giving up the black community. This is the United States which integration should’ve been automatic but due to Africans participation in the slave trade and their on going participation it wouldn’t have been the healthiest thing to do and it’s been shown and proven time and time again.
I grew up in Germany, as a mixed black kid. What Thomas says is 100% correct. His simple evaluation goes over many peoples head.
How old are you if I may ask? I would think a black or mixed kid that grew up in Germany within the last 30 years is likely more exposed to black subculture significantly more than a kids who grew up right after WWII.
@@amatrex i was born in the mid 80s
Just to further add, because many Americans won't know this. German society is more racist than American society.
I was working there and went out to karaoke one night. A black man came in and sat down at the bar and two of the patrons started calling out to him "Hey blackie! Hey Blackie!"
That might happen in the USA today in some rural places, but it would never happen in a metropolitan area.
@@nealorr5086 this comment is so far from the truth and reality, star wars may be of more relevance.
what an absurd statement to make, claiming the united states is more tolerant 🤣💆♂️🤦♂️
@@Dominknows Who is the black actor who leads the #1 TV program in Germany?
United States had that in the 1980s.
Do an image search for this:
Washington Post Least Racist Country Map...
South Koreans were dirt poor 50 years ago but we had a conservative president that stoped the victimhood and begging from the West.
They are professional victims. You know who I am referring to.
Uhh who do you think saved South Korea in the Korean war? 😂 and why do you think s korea is invested in... you cant be that dumb
What victimhood did south korea have. ? The only reason the US has a military base in Korea is to enforce their authoritarian power.
They were smart enough to realize that China at some point would become China in todays context and thats the only reason why they are still in Korea. Not because of North Korea but for China.
In any case, the white man has never placed his foot and body weight on your neck so you are free to create wealth . Black people on the other hand is a different kind of HATE. The people who control everything will often have many unknown road blocks that will affect the entire population of blacks. That could be in the form of ruining black credit with a simple arrest, to making sure that loan you need you dont get, to making sure the interest rate is higher , to using the media to create the narrative that black people are unsophisticated wild animals which restrict integration within other networks and business opportunities
And now their more liberal president wants to import third world people there to ruin it.
@@davewordsworth1251who?
Having forty pairs of sneakers is not the way to develop intergenerational wealth.
If you can afford to
😅
😂 yup
Da fuak it aint. My sneaks worth thousadnds. If i sold them I could buy stocks. I can resell my shoes. U dont kno anything wat u talmbout. Jus a hater cuz ur shoes aint like mine
what about jordan 1s… pretty damn lucrative
Teach Sowell Classes in schools!!! Life Lessons - parents read & pass on to your children.
Stop the gender insanity & teach something useful!
Sowell was the best president America never had.
Just imagine if he had been the 'first black president'.
If only.
There aren't many people who I would want as a true monarch over America, but Thomas Sowell is among them. Logical, balanced and still compassionate. Imagine if he were our first black president, what a better country we would have!
Sowell wouldn't be a president because he isn't a puppet.
In Plato's "Republic," Socrates and his friends outlined what they thought might be the ideal society. Then they pondered, who should lead in such a society? They figured that the best candidates for leadership might be reluctant to take on the role, but if they didn't they'd have to pay a penalty: having somebody less capable, less worthy, lead in their place. Thomas Sowell is one of those good candidates who doesn't want the job, damn it!
The negative influence of black sub-culture is so obvious I'm astounded that the interviewer is so surprised at Sowell's statement.
Perfectly said… Hip Hop culture is disgusting.
It was a fake reaction, he's a very smart man and was not really surprised.
That subculture is absurd and retrograde, there is a story of a young African-American girl who told how in the last year of high school her friends tried to get pregnant by a particular boy who they all believed had a future in street gangs, if they had a son by him they could live the rest of their lives on the father's money and it was possible to promote to permanent partner.
@Bob_Adkins right he knows and believe Thomas this is just for the interview
Of course you racist yt guys would think that way. You're just mad that girls don't like y'all 😂😂
Every time some black "kid" has gone off about white privilege on or around me, he's wearing $1000 outfit (minimum), usually cheaply made junk that makes you look 10 years old, and driving a brand new car with an added $5K sound system that he blew out within a week. They have tons of opportunity, just no foresight or care.
What they’re referring to are all the things inherent to First World cultures which create the civilized societies that the rest of the world flocks to. These aspects are obviously absent from their culture, they see this clearly and it winds up inciting envy within them. They are lashing out at that which makes them feel inferior and blaming the inadvertent source. The truth is these things ARE privileges, but only to them because they’re incapable of creating any of it on their own and require our presence in order to enjoy them. Beyond envy, this also incites resentment which will be eternal given our stark differences in abilities. There’s only one solution.
Sociological crapola!@@susanmcmasterson956
@@MichaelTheophilus906 no. It's natural. They're genetically predisposed to envy.
@@susanmcmasterson956 : Very well said! Thank you!
I assume you are talking about ball players - young kids who come to money so suddenly - greedy friends, relatives singing his praises and pushing him to spend money
Why blacks? Plenty of white kids who came into lots of money have done the same
Your post is a typical racist post
What a joy to hear someone who uses their intellect, does the research, and presents clear, eloquent, persuasive reason.
You forgot to add "and speaks like a White guy"
Dr Sowell speaks the way someone with an education SHOULD speak.
He doesn't speak like a toddler cursing like a sailor using their outside voice (even when inside). 🤨🙄
I grew up in a small town in NC. It doesn't matter what you look like. Whether you grow up in the hood or the trailer park, IF the subculture of pervasive generational poverty is your first and primary influence, you are more likely to develop a sort of "victim mentality" to explain away your failures. Also, when "getting locked up" is perceived as a right of passage for young men, rather than as a cultural taboo, that subculture is the key to the proverbial "school to prison pipeline". As I said before, it doesn't matter what you look like.
What town
ah but sometimes the victim mentality can become top-down endemic, and therein you'll find a hard racial divide.
A right of passage? Who thinks becoming a prison wife is a right of passage? Talk sense. We all know that's what happens in jail. It's the world's worst kept secret
I spend a lot of time in and around Lumberton and Elizabethtown. You are 100% correct.
I wish he'd stop saying African American. How bout Black Americans? I wasn't born in Africa.
Who gives a shit? Only the white liberal gets worked up over remedial topics like what term they would like to be “ identified” with.
How about just accepting the fact that you’re an African American.
And you're not Black. You're brown (gold, bronze, brass in color.) Not Black.
They change the accepted and popular terminology every decade or so, it's hard to keep up.
What would the police classify you as though?..
Mmmmm....glorifying crime, drugs, violence, and materialism isn't good for the culture. Who'd 'a figured!
no self control , no budgeting skills . wasting money on fashion not assest . low literacy rate , love to party , no life insurance , leaving nothing for the next generation …. i could go on forever
Correct!
Jews, Irish, Chinese immigrants all came in, lived in ghettos, dealt with prejudice and bigotry, yet they not only survived but thrived. It comes down the individual and their family to work to make their situation better. It's the lack of family input and the mentality of victimhood that holds folks back.
The Jews…. Hmm, watch Europa the last battle
Especially the Vietnamese after the Vietnam war, sometimes not having anything but the clothes on their backs.
you missed one important ingredient.........
Government sanctioned Racism
If you stayed off our 🥜's long enough we'd probably be just as prosperous.
Crazy, after 100+ years of freedom, you’d think black people would have figured it out already. You can only come to the “racist” conclusion that it’s just in their nature at this point.
They hate rich people but want to be rich themselves. They have no idea what real wealth mean😮
They want the material trinkets and baubles associated with wealth without the responsibility of managing wealth.
They want white taxpayers money in the form of reparations, which they will squander, then cry racism because they were never taught to handle money.
I used to do appliance repair in Long Beach. I went into a black girl's apartment and she had a banner around her living room "Getting good grades is not being white". Her son was ~6 years old. I'd love to know how he turned out. I'm guessing pretty damn good.
One of my best friends is a black woman. She has told me many times about being criticized by other black women for eating white and talking white, and for not being deeply rooted in her culture, etc.
Shame that Prof. Sowell's videos attract so little attention and comment. More extreme views from the left or right attract so much more attention. Thomas simply states facts so the liberals won't engage with him. He's not proffering opinions they can argue with.
The succinct presentation of the real issue in it's most basic form astounds me. His adherence to basic reality is unbelievably rare and that is a sad situation. Point being, he shows the logic. His work should be taught at every level of "Public Education."
End the welfare state and family court. And everything be fixed
I don't think that will be enough to change black América, but it will be a good beggining.
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Think about the more a people dependent on the government either on welfare and law enforcement the more they suffer. Think about it black people are fully dependent on the government and police enforcement and they suffer the most. The police part isn't not the "police brutality" but the lack of enforcement of law in ghettos that they suffer the most.
@@nicbahtin4774 Thomas Sowell said that there was a time when black neighborhoods were safe and prosperous.
Soooo ... would that mean no more court ordered child support 🤔 ?
@@monacoofthebluepacific2571
That means man and woman would have to face each other again instead of the government arbitrarily giving the power to one party over the other. Things will go back to normal.
Make teaching Thomas Sowell's findings and writings in schools absolutely mandatory.
I have noticed over the years that American culture specifically has this obsessive habit of looking to blame someone or something, for everything that exists on this earth, regardless of the situation. To me its always seemed like a sign of an immature culture and can be likened to the behavior of children who always are the first to say, "It wasn't me!", even when they haven't been accused of anything yet.
That's actually neo-Marxism, which we imported from Europe.
Specifically Democrats.
Only in the last 50 years, and it’s growing exponentially. I wonder why? Hhhmmmmm.
We are immature. The government goes to great lengths to keep us naive. The internet even forces sites like live leak down because heaven forbid in other countries we know they behead each other. We aren't allowed to see dead bodies, even if they are our own relatives. We have to ask morticians questions about what death is like. I work in emergency response, all budgets go to response of the state, and not educating the public what to do. And because we are so isolated from each other and everyone else, it is easy to control all information. Even then our neighbors are Mexico and Canada and they can be 1000 miles away. They want us to work and play video games, and not worry about anything else. Our school systems are designed to make steelworkers, and not critical thinkers. So we have absolutely nothing to compare ourselves too.
I think a lot of it is misplaced agression. We have no control over a nebulous establishment that we can't touch or do anything about. So people blame it on what they can see or what they do think they have control over. Since they can feel that there is something that they can't quite name, they blame everything on those nefarious sources but themselves.
A lot of it is emotional immaturity. And a spoiled brat problem. Kids are told that they can do anything, and then when they can't, it must be someone else's fault. We have to stop this saccharine form of child raising. And stop being cowards and let others know when something is their fault and stop beating around the bush.
All brown people on earth behave this way without exception.
Just look at South Africa. A once rich country robbed by the ANC.
That comment can be extended to the whole continent, which has been ruined by black greed and corruption. Country leaders with Swiss Bank accounts whilst their population live in tin shacks.
Rich for who? You mean the Dutch and British invaders who plundered that country and brutalized it's people? Mane get off this app you making yourself look stupid
Huuuuun, highly debatable. The majority was excluded from the riches. Now, the riches is being shared by many more people leading to drop in GDP.
@@lolasobande8663 no, the natives got control and turned SA into a terrible place....again.
@@lolasobande8663 Not shared. Stolen. The ground zero fact is that the blacks in SA are just as poorly off, if not worse, than during apartheid. Sharing wealth does not break down buildings to the foundation, does not make electric cables disappear, does not force people to invest enormous amounts in securing property from theft and attack, does not cause business to shut down due to rampant legislated reverse racism. I could go on and on, but just to make it easier, come and spend a month here.
what a man thinketh so that he is!
Education
Education
Education
New Education
He's speaking facts. Igbo, Nigerians are known for education. Smartest people in many sectors you know. That's part of "culture". From a young age it's drilled into you, "education" "education". I wasn't allowed to play outside until I read a book. You still have class in the summer..... yeah I know. Black Americans (not all) will mock you for being intelligent, it's wild.
Sowell is a genius 😊
Yes, he is an American Treasure! So much loved and admired!
He’s full of shit
Agree
another lying lodge bubba greasing their finger for insertion. you love so much
Sowell is only a genius to idiots.😂
I had horrible parents and a brother who bullyed me every moment he could. We lived in the middle of nowhere, and I saw another kid except at school.
The school kids were all of a different nationality from me and were all related to each other, no one ever talked to me. Very many days, my brother and I had nothing to eat, months of our lives, we ate only bread while my mother was in town in her new car. When I was about 14 , I became schizophrenic and almost helpless while all alone for 50 years. I regained control of my thoughts 7 years ago at age 66 by a miracle. For more than 6 of those years, I was screaming , crying, and angry, imagining what my life might have been without my setbacks.
Today, I live alone in a one room apartment in a third-world country for economic reasons. Being 72 years old now, I can't see any chance of things getting much better before I die. I'm polite and courteous to people I meet and give a little to beggars when I can.
I don't take out my problems on others, and I certainly have never hurt anyone else on purpose because of others hurting me.
No one has to blame others for their poverty or their failures. No one has to hurt someone else because they've been hurt. Doing any bad thing is a choice. No one , nothing forces us to do what's wrong.
You made it this far because of God.
Things will get better, just believe and never give up!!!
@@DeanWilliams7979
Hmmm, NO SHT ?
Keep the bar high and people will reach for it. It requires work to be competent. It requires no effort when your ignorance is rewarded and normalized.
That's a huge problem in what passes as the American education system. Subjects have been "dumbed down" to the lowest level, allegedly in an effort to bring the lowest performing students up. It doesn't work like that. You have to challenge ALL students to do their best. Fun fact: The people who are shrieking to the heavens that "our education system is broken" are the SAME PEOPLE who have the proverbial baseball bat in their hands. They are the ones who pushed the hardest to lower school standards, and here we are.
Make the bar too high and no one will even try.
I agree with him about that so-called “music” and that subculture
Mr Sowell has such a reasonable head on his shoulders. Owing a lot of stuff does not make us wealthy. We are slaves to our possession, hoarding is a mental illness and a symptom of past traumas. A truly wealthy person doesn't live ostentatiously, they have what they need, they are comfortable, but they're not slaves to their possessions so they can do without lots of stuff that actually nobody needs and are stilly to want.
That goes along with the idiot statement, he or she with the most toys wins. Build up your treasures in heaven, we're only here for a short time and no one gets out of here alive
When a kid buys into the “ghetto” youth subculture, it’s the beginning of the end. Race and poverty don’t matter. Look at rich, white Dax Lauper, who acts like a gangster rapper and is in trouble with the law. But as a veteran teacher, once a kid buys into those values, they pretty much stop doing schoolwork or following rules. The schools fail because nobody can get them to study, show up on time, put the phone down. It’s more common with some ethnicities for sure, but a black kid who doesn’t get into that youth culture is usually fine.
Blame the parents it's not the teachers job the parent
You won't accumulate wealth by buying $100.00 sneakers etc..
$100???!!! That's a deal! Gimme 7 pairs!
@@dennisdezarn5895No it is not. I bought shoes for $25 dollars at Big 5 this year and last year. You should put that money in a CDO or Money Market Account.
That’s 1990 prices.
A good pair of sneakers should not cost more than 70.00dollars.
Most shoes cost 80 bucks so, I would say you will not accumulate wealth by buying $ 300 sneakers.
Zero impulse control
Who do you mean?
@@awesomepost3542 you couldn't help yourself could you
@@awesomepost3542watch the news for three minutes and you’ll realize what he means.
A genetic predisposition
@alan it's not genetic, that's just stupid to say.
It's cultural
Nigerians don't act like that..
Far as I know, blacks in the UK don't act that way either.
That theory/ mindset is just as racist as the stupid BS known as the theory of evolution.
We didn't evolve from apes, nor are some "groups" more developed/ evolved than others
The greatest brain surgeon in the world is a black man named Ben Carson.
The traffic light was invented by a black man .
Peanut butter was brought to us by George Washington Carver .
Those are just 3 examples of what happens with education and the right environment.
Thomas sowell is probably the greatest economist of all time, if not a close second.
So your argument doesn't hold water, you must be liberal
Making yourself a victim of circumstance is the easy way out of your situation.
It's actually the Laziest way out of your circumstances
It's a cop-out of responsibility. It's the first step to victimhood.
Note that Sowell doesn't use African-American.
Because in America European descendants do not call themselves European American neither.
All should know of this man and his wisdom ❤
A school is only as good as the students (1st) parents of those students(2nd) & the teachers teaching those students (3rd)
❤
No, many schools are not effective, don’t communicate with parents, underfunded, overworked teachers, overcrowded, daycares, matriculating kids without properly educating them
IQ is not the same as intelligence.
Education and culture are supposed to have no effect on IQ.
So what does that mean really, just say it the way you feel it: cause everybody knows right from wrong
@@sherrelshepard4590 What?
WTF do you think the I in IQ stands for?
@@photudiodan4648the I does stand for “intelligence” but that may be a bit misleading. IQ is the measure of a person’s ability to learn, reason and make predictions of consequences to their actions.
Yes it does. In some African cultures like Nigeria value going to school and getting an educations
40 years of rap music + 20 years of Grand Theft Auto = (?)
Jordan shoes, large screen TVs, jewlery and financed cars keep people poor, is the same for every race, the only things that changes are the brands.
It's really not, like, not even close. Poor people are poor because they're poor, black people are poor because they get 2500 from their job or so and quickly buy a 2500 ring to show off to their homies and then quickly beg for a venmo so they can eat for the next two weeks. White people do this maybe one in every fifty, asians just don't do this and even Indians have figured out it's better to just steal and then say a few random words in their native language and run away. Blacks have found an easier way to it, just spend the money and blame white people and eventually white people will give them free money.
its the parents'fault. dont have kids you cant afford
As a percentage, the black community aborts more of their children than any demographic in the United States. All that potential murdered in the womb...so very sad.
Think we need to go further than that, don’t have sex if you are not prepared to be a parent. And of course I’m anonymous so I don’t fell awkward sharing but I didn’t have sex until I moved out and got my own apartment. I was terrified of getting pregnant when I am not ready.
@@WiseAilbhean Great comment. As a Man, after I gain control of my hormones & matured a little, I too stopped sleeping around because I want to be able to make sure I can offer EVERYTHING to my partner & children.
@@normalisoverrated
Hear, hear 👏🏽👏🏽
@@WiseAilbhean
Lots are still not ready to have this conversation. They'd prefer to abort the baby and pretend as if the consequence of having sex isn't being pregnant. Oh well.
was a University Supervisor for student teachers for 22 years----in inner city and suburban schools. One incident really hit home for me about your topic at hand here. I was called into a meeting after observing two student teachers at the high school. The vice-principal, department head, student teacher, and classroom teacher were in the office, along with an irate mother and her daughter. The classroom teacher asked every student to have a 99 cent notebook for class each day, and the irate mother was outraged that the school was not providing that notebook for her daughter. I was merely an observer at the meeting, but I couldn't help notice the elaborate nails on both the mother and daughter. The mother's purse was Dooney & Burke, her top was Chanel, and the daughter's backpack was top-shelf designer. Designer jewelry on both of them. And yet the mother was outraged that the teacher asked the students to have a 99 cent notebook in class. The vice-principal (she was nearing retirement and was from Latin America) said to the mother, "Your nails look so lovely. I've often thought of going once for a nail salon appointment to see what it's like, but I just can't justify the expense." The mother looked at the vice-principal and said, "Nail appointments vary between $45 and 65 every two weeks. If you want to look good and be a queen, then you need to take care of yourself." The vice-principal cooly analyzed the mother and daughter duo and replied, "If you have that kind of money to spend on nails every two weeks, then surely you could invest in your daughter's education and future with a 99 cent notebook." The mother and daughter went ballistic. The intensity of screaming was so loud that it brought the principal out of his office and into the main school office to see what was going on. Of course, the mother immediately leveled the "racist" accusation against everyone in the room, and the daughter began to cry and said she couldn't remain in the classroom with racist teachers. The department head told the woman and daughter in a matter of fact tone, "Twenty-five percent of the term grade depends on successful completion of assignments in that 99 cent notebook. Your daughter has already failed three quizzes and two exams. She has also failed four labs because she refused to do any work, claiming that the lab work would damage her nails." The vice-principal then said, "We're not running a fashion parade here in school. We're here to see that students get an education in academics, life and responsibility. Do you want your daughter to fail?" The mother and daughter got up and stormed out of the office. End result: the mother withdrew the daughter from the high school and said the daughter was now going to be homeschooled. The mother was a high school dropout at 15, and the cycle is repeating itself.
It's the fault of the parents of the kid raised in Detroit. How you raise kids make a difference. It's not a difficult concept.
Bit more to it than that. You might be a very decent black man and wife but if you're bringing kids up in a poor black neighbourhood it's very difficult to avoid the pimps, pushers, junkies and ne'er-do-wells. What chance do you have? Only by extreme control can you break this cycle but of course that would be anti-democratic.
Many want instant gratification. They live for the moment, and never think of tomorrow.
How do you know this ??? Talk to any black people at all ???? No,you don't,do you ???? I'm just taking a-WILD-guess here.
@@user-be7tc2bd6e - Your assumptions are incorrect. We have a very large mixed family. I speak from first hand experience.
@@mchapman132 My assumptions are correct,I'm a black male and you're putting all blacks in america in the same bowl. None of my family members fit any of these assumptions you've stated or any of the blacks in the neighborhood I now live in.
@@user-be7tc2bd6e - If you read my post again, I said MANY, I did not say ALL. It’s the same for white people too, some people cannot handle money properly, they can’t budget. I don’t believe it’s a racial issue, I believe it’s a generational issue. Many…..many have never been taught how to handle money, budget, manage a home properly. These things do not come naturally, you have to be shown, taught how to function well. Lack of education feeds poverty. I know two people who won the Lottery, white people, within 5 years they were broke and deep in debt, it’s ignorance.
I’m a very fair minded person, I don’t generalize. I know there are good and bad in all races. As I stated earlier, we are a large mixed family, because we raised our children to look at the individual…... not the color of the skin. Unfortunately, a couple of them married real losers…..one white and one black.
You Yt folks love instant gratification that's why 70% of drug users are yt.🤔
It's never been about what you have , it's about how you handle the resources.
Re the comments here by Prof. Sowell and those below concerning the Igbos, a cursory internet search will tell you that there is jealousy, prejudice and hatred of this tribe because of their stand-out success from their countrymen and other Africans.
Some of the comments herein indicate further support for such a conclusion.
Prof Sowell is correct.
A very strong and destructive part of the black culture that is seldom mentioned is jealousy.
Answer to that particular question is very simple. Spending their money on shiny trinkets instead of the things that matter
This! I partially blame our public education on this which says that algebra and geometry are more vital math skills than smart investing and household budget management
Like an old White guy who pays $100k (in monthly notes) for an F250 Superduty diesel?
I've been to yard sales in poor areas where the weeds are 6' tall and the houses need roofs and they all have broken cars, flat screen tvs, hundreds of CDs and DVDs, big dogs, boats, exercise bikes, etc. Just plainly do not understand compound interest or saving.
I felt so proud of myself when he referenced the Igbos.
"Whose job is it to...?" There's the problem right there, looking at someone else to take the lead, take responsibility, do what needs to be done, shoulder the load. Not looking first at ourselves and what we can do.
My husband noted years ago that there are no inferior peoples, but there ARE inferior subcultures that hold people back. This could explain why immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean tend to do far better than other immigrants and far, far better than American born.
Interesting that Sowell mentions Southern whites at the end of this clip. I saw first-hand the pressure not to achieve among poorer small-town whites in Georgia 50 years ago. There was tremendous community support for individuals as long as you stayed in your lane, but if you wanted to go to college or advance in any way you were accused of "brown-nosing" or being "uppity" and were avoided. It was appalling.
Native American kids face some of that same pressure here in Wyoming. Also among certain Hispanic subcultures.
The only thing you are being held back by in America is your own laziness and woe is me mentally.
I taught at over five different schools. At only one school I was falsely accused of racism by faculty members.
It was the school with a black majority faculty.
I wish I could have the newest IPhone like the black lady in front of me at the grocery store who is using food stamps
using those food stamps to buy ultra-processed foods for their children, so they can get a head start on heart disease and diabetes
One word: corruption
Thank you.
'There's no gangster rap' That is the quote from this segment, and he delivers it with such passion.
I grew up in Appalachia-north Georgia, I consider myself reformed white trash. I was fortunate, and I lived in a house, looking back, probably the nicest house in the poorest county. Which wasn’t much………..but, I remember the ppl that lived in the trailers, parents had a nice big ol, expensive, pick up truck. But lived in a “s” hole, kids had duct tape on their shoes, but daddy had a nice truck.
Their priorities they passed on to the blacks of the south, better to arrive in style than live in it. I remember the truck we had was used, beat up, but we had a house and I had clothes and a shower. I remember being jealous of the kids with the nicer, newer, trucks. But then realized where they lived.
When I got married, the only thing I could afford was a trailer in trailer park. It cost me in 1990, $7500 and the lot rent was $200 per month plus water. So, again, I’m reformed white trash, I live in a home, but I worked and I didn’t buy the nice things. Instead I invested my money and retired early.
People always forget schools are running by the local government. The local voters can fix them by voting in new school boards, mayors and city councils. It is a myth that it is a funding problem. If you want to change things, vote the bottom of the ballot up starting with with who is on the school board. I don't know a single person who does this.
I wish people would do that in our community. We have a mayor who is also a family law attorney. Whenever the place has a challenge, she whines "My hands are tied". As an attorney, how would she have any clientele?
I've worked with esteemed members of the community and seen them make a 5000 dollar check on friday and be broke on monday. I mean, like 80 to 90% of those that I worked with did this every week for months on end and leave the project dead broke.
There are lots of black people with money. Worked at law firm in 90's. They charged $300 -500 per hour. I was shocked to see the number of black clients. I learned old money is quiet. New money is loud. One client who was nearly a billionare drove a volkswagen bettle!!
No crab bucket!
Exceptional and intriguing content. The handicap is always the culture!
I had a very close and dear friend. I say "had" because he is now deceased. He was always gainfully employed, and made good money in the process. But, money went through his fingers like water. He was always maxed out in debt. I tried to help him, but while he acknowledged he needed help, he never changed. He died an early death, and in crushing debt. Sad. A person can have many advantages, but still never be able to make sound decisions, financial or otherwise. Society isn't to blame for that. Peace. Out.
One word: PRIORITIES
Because they spend their money on bling, fake hair, talon claws and court costs
Why do you care so much about black culture ??? Or black people in general ????
@@user-be7tc2bd6eBecause that’s what we’re constantly shown EVERYWHERE. Music, TV, Movie, Ads, etc. It’s always about you, boo. Thirteen percent take up ALL THE ROOM.
Phfffttt 😝
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Try ignoring an indoctrination of a race when it's forced onto you everywhere. Eventually you realize that it's a comedy culture now! Jealousy causes this kind of situation. Instead of improving one's education,skills,etc, you're told that you can't compete, not because of your lack of abilities ,but because of another race keeping you down. It's easy to give up on all personal responsibility if you're raised to believe this lie
@@_merggnot really u could just turn the channel. You choose to watch it
The story that blows me away is a recent one. A young, single black mother was given thousands of dollars in an assistance program specifically for single black mothers living in poverty. What did this woman do with the money? Did she use it to put a down payment on a home, invest in education or job training, even simply save it? No, she took her kids and her boyfriend on a lavish vacation, got designer clothes and jewelry. Why? Because she was comfortable living on the dole? Perhaps. Fundamentally, it was her lack of education and a culture that says being educated is acting white.
No she straight up knew that she could do that, she knew that as long as she bitched and didn't move forward with her life she would be paid for. This is how it works, she was comfortable living on the dole. Fundamentally it has nothing to do with acting white, because what she's doing by buying rich and expensive clothing and acting above her station is white by its own definition. So this is just another darkskin woman knowing she can skin the system, nothing fundamentally changing about it.
Just because you were born poor doesn't mean you must stay poor.
"Broke" is a state of time. "Poor" is a state of mind.
@@pricklypear7516 Why is that the case? Poverty is deeply entrenched in the USA by its economic system called capitalism. Vast umbers of white people are as poor as black people for similar reasons that are not personal faults.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Poverty isn't deeply entrenched. You should listen to the video until you get the message. It's all about culture and brainwash. They are taught to look up to clowns who invest all their money into looking "cool" & going to prison. I know a guy who started with borrowing 500$ from a friend and built an empire. Capitalism isn't holding people back. It's bad schools, bad parents & evil people in power. If anything is holding people back these days, it's the lets all go crazy liberals.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Many social ills can be laid at the feet of capitalism, but it does NOT determine one's mindset. This country continues to offer opportunities for advancement unheard of in many other places to those with enough integrity to overcome adverse conditions. Poverty is not "a personal fault." Resigning oneself to poverty IS.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Listening to way to much AOC!! She said: Capitalism is man oppressing man, Socialism it's the other way around. Kind of blows a Commie Comment out of the water.
If you stand around looking for others to fix your problems. You’ll Waste away, your Life and Opportunities.
Right!
And it starts by just making little changes day by day!
My uncle spent his entire career as a teacher in a top school in Tanzania. In his later years he was a teacher in a top school here in India. He used to say there was absolutely no difference in ability between the African and Indian students because both sets were from privileged households. So it really comes down to the culture and opportunities the parents provide their children.
No, you're ignoring the bell curve. Top 1% of blacks = average white
Hey, there are lots of black people out here doing great financially and are very rich; this one-sided narrative that black people are poor needs to stop.
My family immigrated from Haiti. My parents, aunts, and uncles raised their kids from working class to middle class. Only one cousin who was really into Hip Hop and certain liberal talking points. This cousin has the absolute worst handling of money. Maybe has 300 pairs of sneakers. Tons and tons of designer clothing. 100+ baseball caps. Will buy 3 shirt the have to same design but different sleeves, waists, or collars. This guy always has credit card debt. Any job, he works where they have a 401K, after he leaves it, he takes the money out pay off his bills or to wastefully spend.
One of the most stupidest things he has done. Fell in love with a girl from the ghetto who looks like an IG model, almost 25 years his junior (he has a history for chasing young women), and he is in his mid 40s. Took $100K out his 401K, spent money on repairing her home. Repairing her car. Doing things for her family. Showering her and her family with gifts. Going on expensive vacations. Bought her a very expensive engagement ring worth nearly 10K. The young ghetto lady SHOWED multiple signs that she wasn't mature, and he still tried to make the relationship work. Till she eventually broke up with him. I think she used him for his money. My cousin believes that someone on her side sabotaged the relationship. Now he's broke with massive credit card debt, though he works a decent job. He spends too much time lamenting over his broken heart. Rather then realizing he got used and needs to make better decisions with money.
I know my cousins and his siblings would like to sell their parents' home in NYC one day. I know my two other cousins will be good. However, this cousin with the bad money management, I'm afraid is going to burn through $300K to $400K of his share with his immaturity, stupidity, and whatever mental illness he has.
I forgot who talked about it. But some black conservative intellectual talked about blacks who moved to middle class, are seeing their children or grandchildren moving back into lower class.
It does sound like mental illness. Impulse control, especially with money, is a big symptom of bipolar disorder.
Sounds childish. Why does a middle aged male have 100 baseball caps
@@LeadLeftLeon , a lot of people into Hip Hop culture. I would say have some sort of arrested development. A lot of them are into materialistic items and spend frivolously. You would think by your 40's that you learn financial discipline. But nope, still spending like you're 16 yrs old. On top of that my cousin was always extremely hard headed, did what he wanted, no matter who warned him. Plus he always followed trends. Bad combination.
One of the best things my dad ever did for me. When I was a teenager and my computer broke. I expected him to get me a new one. Nope, told me that I would have to work and buy my own. When I got a job and was able to afford a top of the line computer. I treasured it and maintained it. When I was in college, I went to a seminar on financial discipline. It also taught me Need vs Want. Also to plan for the future.
About that last one, their parents moved out but wasn't able to teach their kids to stay away from that culture and since that what was being advertised as "true" black culture, they get dragged back in and get ghettocized.
@@HappyRoach1 Interesting. Thanks. What is your take on how most people do not value any free or low-priced things? I love thrift stores and treasure any special finds. That could include a bag of elastic bands for a dollar! I do not follow trends. Most of my clothes are purposely secondhand but look nice. I am a senior (white), and I do have a bunch of baseball caps and simply like to wear them. Just one at a time, though. lol I like to add a bit of color to the often somber-looking surroundings. Willie Mays did OK in his. lol I don't see how wearing them makes you immature, although I understand how they supposedly do not project the right image in the workplace. Even as a kid I wondered why all those "successful" men wore suits. I would think of those men as fakes and say, "What are they trying to prove?" Why not instead dress like one of those "native chiefs" on the cover of those old National Geographic magazines? To me, Success is not Needing it. I prefer to ride a bicycle than to drive the car for most local trips (less than 5 miles). I buy almost nothing that is new except food (and a bicycle). lol The car is 25 years old and I try to drive less than 1000 km per year. This way of living I simply have found enjoyable and I find it to be a somewhat adventurous lifestyle too. Thanks again.
But the average black African is in worse shape than American blacks. Is this because of colonization? Spain was occupied by the Moors for 7 hundred years, until the last vestige was driven out in 1492. Almost immediately Spain became the most powerful country in the Western world.
I love how Mr.Sowell admits that it is black culture that is keeping black people down.
Not every black person is "down".
@@lorrainejennings7344 Tell that to the leftists, liberals and democrats.
@@daniellewis2133No you tell that to the White Supremacist.🤔
Goodness, I’ve been a can’t of Tom for many years, and these discussions never get old. Maybe one day on my travels in California I’ll get to meet him. Running out of time, I suspect
He turns 94 on June 30th...he is an Amazing man.
He can blame "subculture" all he wants. There are 54 countries in africa and none of them are outstanding in any field nor do they contribute anything substantial to science or technology.
This is a very uneducated take.
The African continent is the most abundant one in the world in terms of natural ressources. It has produced tens of Nobel Prize winners in the last century for their contributions to numerous fields including Physics, Chemistry, and Physionomy or Medicine. One of the most famous business mogul in the world, Elon Musk, is South African and he owned and/or built companies such as Paypal, Tesla and Space X which actively benefit the United States.
Countries such as DR Congo, Senegal and Kenya are famous for producing world-class athletes and artists. Scholars from countries such as South Africa, Marrocco and Algeria still shape the way their respective disciplines are viewed and appreciated today. It's ridiculous to write off an entire continent just because you are unknowlegeable when it comes to it.
Many very talented Nigerian doctors have immigrated to America and other countries.
100% agree that it's the culture that is influencing
I'm going to watch the video, because I'm genuinely interested in hearing what Mr. Sowell has to say, but I'm going to comment a guess here before I even start and say it might have something to do with popular culture pushing a narrative that you must wear expensive designer clothes, shoes, jewellery etc. So called "luxury" brands like Gucci, Fendi or Louis Vuitton are not so much "luxury" items as they are money sinks for the mostly poor who find themselves with an occasional windfall. They remain poor because they spend all their money on the appearance of wealth.
Just my guess though.
Meanwhile, California lawmakers announced reparation payment and apologies.
And California never had black slaves, but they had the local natives they used as slaves at the Mission churches...we don't hear anything about them getting reparations.
California is a idiot state.
lol they can’t even keep a McDonald’s open. I can’t wait to see them start printing checks too😂
They have gotten enough "reparations"... it's called generational welfare
Former slaves were promised land after the civil war and they got nothing. U.S. lied to them like it lied to the Indians. SMH.
A genetic lack of impulse control is the root cause of the problem.
What an ignorant statement. Are serial killers genetically predisposed. The majority are from what race???
And that can explain white poverty too.
@@user-nv8nt6gm2d Yes, it can also be attested to the fact we're paying for darkskin.
Not the new generation of black they learn
Sowell is 94😂…Biden is 81 & he looks closer to the grave than any 81 year old leader I’ve ever seen.
Such a brilliant man. Fluid in thought, thorough in point...Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.
kids learn what the live and live what they have learned.
If a child of ANY race in America is born disadvantaged it’s the parent’s fault. If you are not stable financially of well off enough to raise kids the right and proper way then you shouldn’t have kids. I could have had plenty of kids of my own by now but I’m not in a place that’s financially stable enough to raise kids properly and to give them a good start in life so I do the responsible thing right and I use contraception.
Many of my blue collar coworkers are black . Payday is Friday- they ask to borrow money for cigarettes on Monday. I asked - where is your payday? Well- I bought dope and cigarettes and went to the club all weekend and now I’m broke with no gas in my car or cigarettes. Ok- I see now.
I keep seeing comments like this and I laugh. The average white American family is financially more secure than the average black American family. Is this really bc white peolle never black through money on dumb things? Does that really explain the 20-30 thousand dollar difference of average household? No it’s more to it, and frankly just like with whited sub group group of Black America behaves like your co-worker. Normally it’s irresponsible young people.
The reason why black Americans aren’t equal with white Americans financially is bc their direct ancestors err never given reparations, (well technically a few slaves did but it was reversed) and to add insult to injury the federal government allowed unjust laws to be passed that effectively handcuffed the black economy. Some black communities found ways to thrive in spite of this, but many were destroyed by angry racists. So basically slavery, Jim Crow, red lining, and poor government educational resources for black majority schools, and of course a negative crime and degeneracy ridden sub culture that was borrowed and developed do to these circumstances.
A simple solution to fix the gap, is the most obvious one, reparations, to qualifying black families. Now as far as how that should be implemented, I think to quality one would have to be descended from Ethnic black Americans who were enslaved, and suffered under Jim Crow, red lining etc, and there should be educational requirements, namely a government financial education course that all heads of households, must take and pass.
@gregory. Advice I received by a middle aged man when I was young was "it's not always how much money do you make, it's how you manage your money".
How long did it take to make up that story?
I'm black, young(22), and in blue collar. So are a good portion of my coworkers. I don't do this, they do this, where do y'all find these imaginary black people. I've been poor all my life and never seen these type of black people y'all claim we are. My father worked, his brother works, many of his cousins and my cousins work. My coworkers do the same. We got plenty of bad people, sure. But they broke as joke.
Honestly I think y'all are talking more about stereotypes than actual people. You don't spend a week or two's pay on "dope and cigarettes". Either they're lying or you're lying, and I'm inclined to believe it's you.
What Mr. Sowell teaches American, society is priceless.
Im a white kid that was born in Greenwich, Ct. My father was the top sgt. in the armory. We were middle class at best. It was nice growing up there but Greenwich is very diverse. There are 3 projects there. I was taught that if you wanted something you worked for it and earned it. The interviewer didnt do his research.
I shouldn’t have to point this out, but he was just using Greenwich as shorthand for a concept of privilege.
@@ted.angell7609 I'll clear this up for you. There is a perception/assumption, more likely a myth, that everyone from Greenwich or who live in Greenwich are wealthy. Comments or "concepts" like the one made exacerbate that myth. That myth deludes what blue-collar folks like me have achieved through hard work not family money.
Dr. Sowell is marvellous.
People like Condoleezza Rice, General Colin Powell, scientists like Niel deGrasse Tyson, Hakeem Oluseyi, NASA's Gregory Robinson or NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, surgeon Ben Carson, and especially Thomas Sowell one of the most brilliant American intellectuals, demonstrate that education is vital.
Also, half of those that you mentioned there aren't even from African American families. Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell came from families from the Caribbean that immigrated to the United States. Those families tend to be married and place a far higher value on education than Black people whose families had lived in the USA for generations.
You can’t compare the group to any poor and oppressed group across the world. As the circumstances they came to America (in such droves) is 100% unique. After 2010, the problem is now a blanket lack of social mobility for anyone without familail wealth
The main problem in black americans and also arabs/islamic folk is to blame always the others for the own problems, to wait for/expect others to provide for their good, not to see and not to be gratefull for all the opportunities society at large provides for them, to follow afterctheir physical desires more than other groups and to be absolutely blind for the own misrakes and defficiencies that ruin the thing for them. Solution: take responsibility for your life and try to contribute good and not only to get.
Very well said!!
The poorest people are those who refuse to do anything about their poverty.
They had fathers present raising children in a society that valued education and knowledge.
Own what? Ridiculously expensive sneakers? A leased car they can't afford?
I see a new video i have to click. Brilliant info.
The secret is in their work boots. They should put them on, for a change.
Thank you! So how do we change or eliminate the self-defeating subcultures of societies?
stop brainwashing them
@@Augfordpdoggiewith objective morals and plain common sense.
Don't have substandard education for any group of children indoctrinating them to depend on the State. Teach them hard work and education are the requirements for success. Return the Christian God back into our nations school systems. Get rid of government schools in favor of voucher portability so parents can make the choice as to who will educate their children.
You can't.
You can only deal with yourself.
Everyone has to start with themselves.
because they spend they money on BS to flaunt it around
gold chains, cars, nails, hair, clothes, bikes. shit that doesnt appreciate in value, thats why