Ty. I pondered: if groups are treated differently, a different result seems likely. And then: If they’re treated the same… differences on the individual level present a better level of analysis. In how many ways do we customize our lives, as individuals? I have doctors examine me. I have a mechanic looking at my vehicle.
@@junior.von.claire Everyone is different. Even Under *The Law* - Look at Different culture & Country's. Everyone Struggles & Has issues. For some.. There is no Happy endings, At all. Period. (Am disabled & We aren't getting treated Equal still) - *Today* I treat people's as best I can. In whatever situations Life tends to Throw at me. However.. Not everyone are kind hearted, Let alone feels the same as Regards to these *Problems of Modern Society* > In a All too much - Digitalized Time
Black nations were coerced to "fail" by the CIA placing drugs, weapons, gangster rap, alcohol on every corner of their living area's and were "set up to fail". Misguided by many circumstances with the truth hidden from them. Black leaders were all killed off and labeled terrorists. People either don't know this or act like they don't know. Anytime a new black leader comes to teach and show black nations the truth and that they can have "much more" in life, these leaders are labeled and killed. Just look at Black Wall Street and all the other events that happened. All black organizations were eliminated and if the choose to stand together again and bring change, it is not aloud. They are soon separated and "society" much rather them "piss in the hallway" so that they can point fingers. If Black Wall Street was alive and well, we would have seen huge positive change in Black Nations due to the example that it would have set, Blacks would see something that they would want, something great and come together and end any racial stigma's that they pushed to hold. But there is an agenda thats being pushed, that has always been pushed. "They" (the ones who run the world) know that "united we stand, divided we fall" so the agenda is to keep them divided instead of uniting all people because the truth is that we are all One under God.
Our ancestral birthright land inheritance was taken by Bankers and the fraudulent U.S. government. Rockefellers intent was to keep everyone Wight working as revolving credit/debt slaves. Average Negroes could not posses a credit card until after The Vietnam War. Fiat currency...fake Society norms such as Jim Crow racial prejudice and Separation by Ritualistic Degrees.
@@theonlinecrunch7874 this is most ludicrous statement I had ever seen and it is astonishing that people still believe in this even in nascent times. Everytime white men did this and did that. So the corrupt African leaders who subjugated, terrified and terrorized their own, looted their country's economy shouldn't be questioned but fingers should pointed at the people who washed their hands off a country? You need to be knowledgeable on this rather than make a judgement on whim.
@Anya Wale Definitely worked on you, you're panicking like crazy hahaha... This is why Sowell is great. He not only exposes utter mediocrities, but he exposes their worshippers too. Bye.
@Anya Wale Regardless of what Sowell is, James Baldwin was fundamentally nothing more than a more prolific and eloquent Al Sharpton. A pretentious race hustler, con artist, and serial complainer masquerading as an intellectual. Yet, he is beloved by the academic Left. Now why is that not surprising?
@Anya Wale Nobody has ever needed to get around you, and nobody ever will. You seem to be a child who's been allowed to use the internet unsupervised. They just ignore people like you and get on with their lives. Poorly articulated, evidence-free gibberish does not merit invested responses. Besides, you don't need to convince me. You need to convince Reality, which bears out every single word Sowell has written, on a daily basis. Reality does not seem to want to listen to you, either. It's not going to anytime soon. You can keep typing whatever garbage you want. Makes no difference to the reality of things.
I’ve actually read more from Walter Williams than Thomas Sowell. I guess that’s because he had his newspaper column for all those years. You can still look up his old columns on line. And they are still relevant.
In law school, I had a very personal conversation with a professor who was black. He had worked hard to increase the number of black students, but they didn't do well and he was blamed. (Had he been a follower of Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell he would have understood the mistake.) Somehow we spoke about housing projects and their decay in the nearby city. I told him I saw the same decay when I studied in Ireland and the same dysfunction. Thomas Sowell nails it. It's not race. It is the government policies that shapes the response.
It's tends to be both. Go back to the 1500s. Also. I don't blame whites for the bad behavior of blacks, I blame certain whites for their own bad behavior and racism and I blame certain blacks but still racism is there
Same in South America. Socialism has destroyed once a powerhouse economy in Argentina. Govt stepped in and destroyed families. Placed fear in the population. Kept everyone stupid. Look at them now. One of the poorest country's in the world. Inflation over 60%. Two currency values. Govt blames racism, and capitalism for the destruction of the country.
@@karlcarlysle3578 I don't understand your comment. Racism is there? So? It will always be there. People of different race are still very successful all over the world. Bad choices and laziness is the problem. You are playing victim to something you have no control over.
The factual analysis and research by Professor Sowell remains world-class. I would have really liked learning in his classes decades ago when I was in college…. But as a life-long learner I learn from him with most of his videos.
@@OriginMSD yeah…. Most average Americans are basically locked into the matrix that is America. If they weren’t they would rebelled a long time ago. What a god awful place! It’s only good for Disney world ….
@@OriginMSD why would you think I think ANYBODY'S arguments are perfect? His just have less holes than most. More importantly, when applied to real life they have exceedingly better results than others. The first step to being intelligent is realizing how dumb you are.. then you take it from there. Thomas Sowell is acutely aware of that fact, and I admire people considered intelligent that realize this fundamental reality of life.
@@randylahey8207 what evidence do you have that Dr. Sowell’s arguments are superior to anyone else’s? What makes you think that his arguments have no holes in them? I did find a few holes, missing relavent information, etc. in this video alone.
Mr. Sowell does his homework!, Videos of him go back decades, ive never known him to be wrong ever! He does the research! Hes had a rich,fruitful life but America let a Jewel slip through her fingers!
If we had more Educators like Dr. Thomas Sowell. Parents wouldn’t have to worry about someone Transgenderlysing and Indoctrinating our Children. All day long Yahoo
I think we did earlier on in our nation’s development. Somewhere along the way (50s,60s) we let liberal thinking pollute our ethical and moral principles. It was a slow process but sure and steady. Now here we are wondering what happened.
I'm a moderate conservative and also trans. I give my children all the facts and let them make up their own minds, as long as they can back their arguments. We respect disagreements in our house, but we do agree on researched facts before arguing the merits and pitfalls they present to us. I hope they do better than you in social media, demonizing trans people as some sort of social indoctrination. My life is normal after transition. Without anyone telling me, I was a person twisted up and living in fear. I came out anyway, despite the dangers, because the alternative was death. Then the psychology world and, later, the WHO took it off their list of mental illnesses a handful of years later. Trans people have always been here, some braver and more visible than others. We felt that we had to hide because of society's serious bigotry problem with those who are "other." You should be more worried about why we so dramatically despise our fellow Americans with differing opinions instead of finding a convenient new scapegoat minority to trash. I fight for my right to exist by leaving my front door. I go to work and I serve the American people in a close and personal way, maintaining the utmost professionalism. If I had been accepted and raised to be a strong, independent woman who just happened to have a surgery or two, I would have been just like any other person born differently, like being deaf or blind or having a few fingers missing or a clubfoot or being intersex. Instead, I grew up in fear and feeling like I had to hide and it ate at my soul. Humans aren't perfect. I admit that I wasn't born perfect. Having a third nipple or micropenis or lazy eye or being autistic or any number of other physical oddities is considered quite normal. Being born trans or gay is too. Please think and do some research before deigning to diminish an experience of which you know nothing.
@@trappedkitty5335 Honest questions: Are you sure you present all the facts and also do not present non-facts as facts? And what does "back up their arguments" mean? How old were your kids when they had to back up their arguments?
moral squalor. it has been 3 decades since Sowell penned these words and I have yet to find a term that improves upon it. Moral squalor. It is what America has decayed to. A nation of people living in self made hells of moral squalor.
I'd just add to that, that being what most people consider "moral" /having "high morals" doesn't guarantee anything. Just that it's good to keep that in mind. While overall, for the culture or society at large, it definitely helps a lot, even people who value and follow through on it, can still experience their sinful, lost, dark, blindness have negative effect on their life or that of those in their lives. Whether - at best - in mental assent to God's word and the gospel which falls short of true heart/will surrender and new birth in the life of a person who is quite decent and well behaved and not lacking love, to the worst - those who ooze evil &/or pride and selfishness in all sorts of ways, while technically seeming to not exactly break the criminal or cultural laws in any major way. Again, I DO think it's better overall for many people, the more we have wholesome decency as a standard, especially the kids, BUT many, many people are easily deceived when living in a wholesome family in a wholesome neighborhood and experiences, into misleading, mistaken impressions about their status, their need, our world and this life. For everyone's eternal sake, I just pray we all do our best to prayerfully be careful to keep that in mind, and seek how God would have us think, speak and act, in light of that. I'm no expert, just have lived, learned and observed enough to have this conviction.
@@ajb.822 Having high morals pretty much guarantees you won't stoop below a certain level regardless of what else you accomplish, & that's enough for a lot of us.
America has decayed to moral squalor? It's FAR too left wing and despicably PC, but at least has free speech and the right to self defense. What other countries have that? That would mean all countries are in moral squalor.
As part of the smallest minority group in a South East Asian country, I’m always afraid moral decay and victimhood mentality will lead to genocide one way or the other.
The commenter above is confused. Hopefully your group will excel and remain morally strong and became pillars of the community and your country as a whole.
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Tim. 4:3-4)"
It’s insane for anyone even a small group of individuals to believe that destroying the very neighborhoods in which they live is going to alleviate them of their grievances
Ahhhhh Professor Sowell, you're such an intellectual and moral treasure and sooooooo badly needed these days, soooooooo fundamentally important and directly relevant to the mess Western society is in. Yeoman's work, Sir, veritably yoeman's work! Salute, Sir!
I read Baldwin's "Go tell it on the mountain " and "Another country " decades ago. I wanted to read something Adult. Enjoyed them. I watched Dr. Sowell's testimonies during the Supreme Court hearings. I've read his works appreciatively. Good take Thomas.
LL. I read a baldwin short story decades ago, cant remember the title but baldwin was a great writer if that one story was any indication, but his leftism was typical hogwash.
@@shivasirons6159 I agree that Baldwin was a great writer. I hope you enjoyed that short story, but many good writers are leftists. Comes with the territory. ☺
Obviously, Mr. Sowell grew up in a different environment than where I am from. I remember growing up in Jacksonville, Florida where there were no one pissing and urinating in elevators black or white 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
The point that Dr. Sowell was making was that he didn't experience this bad behavior growing up in Harlem in the 40's and 50's either, but it started showing up in the 60's and later when progressive ideology was put more into practice.
I remember as a shy young teenager going to dances and see my less shy friends easily approach girls to dance or just chat. I lacked confidence and feared rejection. Often even as we grew older I would hear my friends say things to girls that were totally BS. I would wonder silently if the girls really believe them. Then not so long ago I heard Dr Sowell state that the US had a propensity to discard things that worked for those things that sound good. Perhaps that’s human nature. Chase the fantasy and ignore the reality. I see it with out politicians when running for office making promises that were never intended to be fulfilled. Guess that’s why Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and other notable black leaders are listened to by the black community. Unfortunately they are never held accountable for their words and the general population suffers long after those leaders have moved on to the next opportunity.
So... what explains the poverty and lower living standard among black neighborhoods? How did they initially started to decay? I always thought 80's crack epidemic was at fault, but it seems things started even before that?
@Chip Belori Drugs were a big part of it. You combine that and the lack of employment opportunities and you’ve got a neighborhood that’s going to rot and smolder. Can’t get a good job, there’s easy money to be made slinging dope, which in turn creates degeneracy among the populace. Gotta ask yourself: how did so much come into these already modest, even poor neighborhoods? It’s not like there were dudes in the neighborhood that frequented Colombia or SE Asia for the business opportunities of selling drugs. Also ask why the crack epidemic was treated by the media as a criminal problem and the opioid epidemic was regarded as a public health crisis…
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Mr. Sow3ll is very articulate. He is very knowledgeable and can explain tough situations. He calls it right without shame. I wish I could talk to him one on one. Great job sir.
Another great video. My only suggestion: I could persuade more people to watch if the title was changed to "How Ideology Destroyed Communities | Thomas Sowell" or "How Progressive Ideology has Destroyed Many Communities | Thomas Sowell". I admire your work and hope you are not offended by my suggestions. I want more people to see it and learn from Professor Sowell.
Thank you for the suggestions. The video was strictly supposed to be about James Baldwin, which is why his name had to be included in the title. The other intellectuals simply shared the same vision, which is why they got included. We didn't know any other better way to put it. We often call people by their names, so you have Chomsky, Richard Wolff and others mentioned in our videos, which is why this channel is considered extremely controversial. Your comment is greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
Epic Response. This channel is refreshing in a sea of incivility (especially online). If things are really stressful... I look to Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson & Norm MacDonald (RIP) to revive my faith in humanity. Thank you for your contribution to the world & I suspect many will study this work for years to come.
If you consider what other groups receive these kinds of considerations; that favor should be applied regardless of their actions. You realize just how prejudice liberals are. What are those groups? Children and mentally disabled people. Liberals advocate that we treat minorities (the ones they like anyway) just as we treat children and mentally disabled people.
Don't let anyone oversimplify your mind. If everything is horrific & no one cared at all, would beat u, would u complain? Fast forward 150 years & you're a person... but circumstances tell u you're an inferior person. People start talking about it. But there's little open backlash against that talk, either because some people feel way too powerful or not threatened by it to even bother, or because the argument is so new that anybody who would agree with it at all hasn't heard enough of it to push back against it. Or because anybody not rich, or poor enough to be affected by it, is too busy putting food on the table. You couldn't pay an extra $1.50 a month to download as many videos as you wanted to a computer in your pocket in the 1960s, that you could listen to all day if you wanted. That's about how much the $12 that TH-cam charges for that now. Had to go hear these talks were they were being given, you had to be invited. You want to know what books to read, read the New York Times. Maybe without any kind of sympathetic ideology, crack and redlining wouldn't have been enough to cause all these problems. But even Malcolm X actually said that desegregation actually hurt the black community, bc before then they kept many more of their own dollars
When it comes to urinating in the elevators I'm getting the feeling no one would tolerate that regardless of what race they are. Someone who does that isn't doing it because they're racially oppressed but because they got other issues, like mental health issues. To be honest, who isn't going to complain to someone running the building if someone urinates in a public spot.
schizoidboy, in economics this is called tragedy of the commons, it just means anything funded publicly ends up being vandalized or abused in some way, it’s why bus stops get defaced, because you don’t pay for it directly the way you do your shoes or clothes or car.
Look up info on any major cities projects/government provided housing and you will see exactly what is described by Sowell. It is hard to believe but definitely still happening.
If we had more Educators like Dr. Thomas Sowell? Parents wouldn’t have to worry about someone Transgenderlysing and Indoctrinating our Children 👧. All day long Yahoo
Sowell wants to place all responsibility for their sometimes bad behavior on blacks. That is no more true than is its opposite, that blacks bear no responsibility. Many factors contribute, including things like the the relative lack of generational wealth among black populations compared to whites. It’s naive to ignore slavery as a factor in this. It’s also naive to ignore the long-term effects of ongoing racial discrimination on black population. Examples of this include the cynical gerrymandering of congressional district lines in many (most?) states & the soul-murdering preponderance of Jim Crow laws & practices after the Civil War & well into the 20th century. And Sowell is disingenuous in using his own experience as an example of typical black experience in the US. He ignores the whole body of literature on privilege, one of the more insidious & universal examples of which is maleness. In short, Sowell’s work is short on social science legitimacy.
Well shit on me it’s going to be impossible for me to read Baldwin with the same enjoyment ever again Professor Sowell is a treasure now those Baldwin books will collect dust 😂
It’s unfortunate that Baldwin was just a communist agitator which in todays vernacular is community organizer. He was making a living off of victimhood while Sharpton was still in high school. Good idea to let those ideas collect dust. You’ve got plenty of Sowellsbooks to choose from for facts instead of rhetoric and blame games.
Sell them to someone you don't like. Post-Nihilist Atheist: _If there is a reason for intelligence and imagination it _*_might just be_*_ that the Cosmos is trying to make sense of itself._ Cutely anthropomorphic.
Thomas Sowell is embarrassing. This isn't some neutral historical fact meant to make to educated. It's a specific narrative to contradict another. That is the actual history of the US government policy at the time, ie redlining and subsidized housing with the requirement none be sold to African-Americans. Let me know when Sowell teaches you about the actual things Baldwin was criticizing instead of taking a simple strawman to disagree with the man's ideology. The fact that you would throw away his books by the way is one of the lost hypocritical things you can do by the way. If that's the type of behavior you think Sowell and his supporters like to see then I would drop the act of thinking of yourselves as level-headed, neutral or unbiased. I'll say one more thing on behalf of Mr. Baldwin, he didn't resent people that acted "barbarous" as Mr. Sowell seems to. What naturally follows from thinking about selfhood, is that it deals directly with how you think about your relationship with others. It's called showing a little sympathy for your fellow man.
The exact spot I got carjacked and shot at in 1990 a block from Howard University in Washington DC is exactly the same now yet everything around this small complex is new, shiny and expensive looking. I'm sure the tenants love the telescoping pole with 6 cameras watching them that's parked in the street too. A lot of my friends saw what happened there and it wasn't about race but a gang war.
As a non-black American, I believed all of their bullshit right up until the internet showed me what is really going on in those hellhole neighborhoods!
@@kylegaines1268lol- reading isn’t the problem. I read too much in college and they nearly made me into a communist. It’s the videos I see of blacks behaving stupidly that changed my opinions. These are videos the MSM somehow never bothered to report on. 😂
@@SonOfTheOne111 so I guess you ignore any behavior for any other populations of people. Hmmm such as, killing and attempting to kill political figures? Pedophilia, domestic violence, drunken driving and drug dealing? Because I’m pretty sure, black people don’t have a monopoly on these behaviors. But I understand, looking down on people with brown skin allows you the ability to still feel superior in the US. Don’t worry we know you better than you know yourself.
What happened in Euclid (Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. 1926) was race motivated so it's not a huge cognitive leap to be skeptical and angry by continuation of the result of these destructive zoning laws which were quite likely, born out of racism. Maybe they were wrong in this circumstance about this housing unit, but were right to be skeptical. How poor people were put in this position rests on a 1926 supreme court decision, wherein the defendant of removing low income housing from the community was likely motivated by race.
I am wondering what effect the importation of crack cocaine had on the neighbourhoods? It seems to me that this is when things drastically changed. The gang situation became prevalent once drugs became a bigger factor with tons of easy money. Gangs and drugs can destroy any neighbourhood. Today drugs are proliferating in middle class white neighbourhoods with considerable destruction. The general public seems to react differently to that though.
The opium trade was prevalent leading into the crack epidemic...it was already a network before the new thing showed up. Coupled with the increase in broken homes & public assistance incentives... it created a perfect storm. I have no doubt there was foul play that took place...but the Vietnam war & the opium trade had already created societal stress that crooked people & dealers took advantage of to make a lot of $$$. The social assistance $$ provided money every month & many spent that on substances - leading to another generation more fractured then the last, due to arrests & mothers neglecting their children at a higher rate compared to the previous decades.
Yup and while we as black people need to take accountability and answer for that let us not forget that the cia had a HEAVY hand in that as well we can take accountability while also acknowledging how we’ve been wronged since we came here it’s not one or the other but two things CAN be true at once
John Adams after the Boston Tea Party: "There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered-something notable And striking."
It must be amazingly comforting to think of oneself as a powerless victim if people who aren't powerless victims want to view themselves as that, regardless.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” -Thomas Sowell
"I'm writing for people. I don't believe in white people. I don't believe in black people either, for that matter. But I know the difference between being Black and White at this time. It means that I cannot fool myself about some things that I could fool myself about, if I were white." - James Baldwin "I was born at a certain time, in a certain skin, in a certain place. And you pay for it. Everybody pays for... that." - James Baldwin Sometimes we misunderstand Human beings that understand they're being perceived as Black, White, Gay, Straight, Trans, Christian, American, as the ones who actually believe that they're Black, White, Gay, Straight, Trans, Christian, American. If you think of yourself as Black or White, James Baldwins words mean one thing to you. If you think of yourself as human and or nothing at all, his words mean something else. Its not about the person, its about what they're saying and how much you are aware of. No one is perfect, not even Baldwin.
While I agree with Thomas Sowell on a few things, I must add some corrections to this video. The 1960s were different for a variety of reasons, not just the proliferation of people like James Baldwin. Most importantly, during the late 60s following the end of WW2 and the 50s projects for the Cold War and highways many manufacturing companies moved to suburbs, automated workers, outsourced labor, etc. part of this was the lower demand following the end of the war. In addition blacks AND whites lost jobs but blacks were relegated to lower income areas due to restrictive covenants which weren’t made unconstitutional until after the war, and even then they stayed in the same neighborhood due to lower income. Many blacks didn’t leave but worked menial, low-income jobs for much of the 1960s while some companies made profits. It was also a time when television became popular, as did Space exploration. Blacks People were aware of the opulence of America but were unable to take part in it. White flight had taken capital away from business districts, Jews left housing projects making room for surging black populations, and lower businesses meant education was underfunded while the number of students to rose. All of this played an important role in the riots but was not mentioned. While I don’t deny the civil rights movement was an important incentive, and that the riots did worsen economic conditions, the original socioeconomic conditions, racist discrimination in jobs and housing, and the deindustrialization of Detroit can’t be ignored. I like Dr Sowell, but these videos don’t always cover all the relevant information.
I grew up in NYC government housing for many years and the housing project that I grew up in was predominantly white.. with some puerto rican families moving in. My parents were immigrants from Italy & Romania.. they used to tell me as a teenager the " city projects" ruined the neighborhood. even though they replaced the crumbling tenements which my parents lived in before the city put them up in the mid-1950s.. they said it did something to people's minds.. I could never understand it until I got older because I was able to see the corrupt politicians brainwash the folks that lived there.. by the mid to late 60s the mindset was already changing among the folks that lived there.. even I could see it as a teenager.. the corrupt liberal, Left politicians in NYC did not want hard working folks living there they wanted folks to be dependent on the city for everything.. which is what happened.. they encouraged folks daily to be dependent on the government for handouts. i watched the city implement all of these programs ..
Whoa there! You are combining like four to six decades of events into like one decade in a big generalized summary of the decline of inner city downtown urban centers and the decline of American manufacturing, which the decline of American manufacturing is actually complicated and has been debunked. The decline of American manufacturing is actually happening now. What you are describing is the rise of the Midwest 'Rust Belt', which played out like a domino effect and was caused by bad Federal economic policy and perhaps corrupt politicians including some of the worst US Presidents in American history. Also Thomas Sowell is correct about the Detroit race riots, which caused the collapse of the industrial heartland of America, thus creating the Rust Belt and impoverishing many Midwestern Americans, not just blacks. Your interpretation that only blacks suffered from the fall of Detroit and the collapse of many factory towns across the Midwest is not accurate. The Midwest is still to this day regarded as economically depressed in several areas due to the collapse of the economy of so many communities. Redlining in Detroit, Pontiac, other cities in Michigan, and other cities in the US during the 1940's-1960's was done by the Federal Government that literally pushed on communities the same way the LBJ's Great Society program pushed urban development and the creation of the housing projects or current President Biden is pushing equity and the Green New Deal. Redlining was advertised by the government to be positive for communities, which history later showed was actually impoverishing minority Americans. Apartheid ended in 1964. The persecution and racism did not end in 1964. The Detroit race riots happened in 1967 and the violence and crime only kept increasing and the racial violence is still happening to this day. That racial violence is happening in cities across America and has been spreading to new places since the 2020 race riots. Detroit is a great example that the Federal Government is repeating history right now. Crime is up in New York City and Chicago and Los Angeles, which did not collapse and loose most of their population like Detroit did, but if things get bad enough, they could depopulate just like Detroit. In 1967, when Detroit was lit up like a birthday cake, the Canadians in Windsor in Canada across the Detroit River were lining up watching the fires. The Canadians were confused and scared because they were trying to figure out why an American city was burning.
I've lived no farther than 8 miles and presently live .5 miles from Rutgers University. I can tell you that it has, for many years, had the moniker of "The Little RED Schoolhouse." Leftist as it can be. It was no surprise the professor mentioned, had a hand in fomenting the race concepts mentioned. The only thing I like about RU, is the Agricultural college.
You just explained why the BLM created so much destruction. They normalized it and made it the ideal behavior. Wow maybe I got this epiphany wrong but explain some stuff. I wish I'd met you in real life
The video on Why African Nations Failed After Independence which was taken down by TH-cam is now available: th-cam.com/video/jPdIBmiyNrE/w-d-xo.html
Ty. I pondered: if groups are treated differently, a different result seems likely. And then: If they’re treated the same… differences on the individual level present a better level of analysis. In how many ways do we customize our lives, as individuals? I have doctors examine me. I have a mechanic looking at my vehicle.
@@junior.von.claire Everyone is different. Even Under *The Law* - Look at Different culture & Country's. Everyone Struggles & Has issues. For some.. There is no Happy endings, At all. Period.
(Am disabled & We aren't getting treated Equal still) - *Today*
I treat people's as best I can. In whatever situations Life tends to Throw at me. However.. Not everyone are kind hearted, Let alone feels the same as Regards to these *Problems of Modern Society* > In a All too much - Digitalized Time
Black nations were coerced to "fail" by the CIA placing drugs, weapons, gangster rap, alcohol on every corner of their living area's and were "set up to fail". Misguided by many circumstances with the truth hidden from them. Black leaders were all killed off and labeled terrorists. People either don't know this or act like they don't know. Anytime a new black leader comes to teach and show black nations the truth and that they can have "much more" in life, these leaders are labeled and killed. Just look at Black Wall Street and all the other events that happened. All black organizations were eliminated and if the choose to stand together again and bring change, it is not aloud. They are soon separated and "society" much rather them "piss in the hallway" so that they can point fingers. If Black Wall Street was alive and well, we would have seen huge positive change in Black Nations due to the example that it would have set, Blacks would see something that they would want, something great and come together and end any racial stigma's that they pushed to hold. But there is an agenda thats being pushed, that has always been pushed. "They" (the ones who run the world) know that "united we stand, divided we fall" so the agenda is to keep them divided instead of uniting all people because the truth is that we are all One under God.
Our ancestral birthright land inheritance was taken by Bankers and the fraudulent U.S. government. Rockefellers intent was to keep everyone Wight working as revolving credit/debt slaves. Average Negroes could not posses a credit card until after The Vietnam War. Fiat currency...fake Society norms such as Jim Crow racial prejudice and Separation by Ritualistic Degrees.
@@theonlinecrunch7874 this is most ludicrous statement I had ever seen and it is astonishing that people still believe in this even in nascent times. Everytime white men did this and did that. So the corrupt African leaders who subjugated, terrified and terrorized their own, looted their country's economy shouldn't be questioned but fingers should pointed at the people who washed their hands off a country? You need to be knowledgeable on this rather than make a judgement on whim.
"It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites." - Thomas Sowell.
@Anya Wale Seems to have worked on you, too.
@Anya Wale Definitely worked on you, you're panicking like crazy hahaha...
This is why Sowell is great. He not only exposes utter mediocrities, but he exposes their worshippers too. Bye.
@Anya Wale Regardless of what Sowell is, James Baldwin was fundamentally nothing more than a more prolific and eloquent Al Sharpton. A pretentious race hustler, con artist, and serial complainer masquerading as an intellectual. Yet, he is beloved by the academic Left. Now why is that not surprising?
@Anya Wale Nobody has ever needed to get around you, and nobody ever will. You seem to be a child who's been allowed to use the internet unsupervised. They just ignore people like you and get on with their lives.
Poorly articulated, evidence-free gibberish does not merit invested responses.
Besides, you don't need to convince me. You need to convince Reality, which bears out every single word Sowell has written, on a daily basis.
Reality does not seem to want to listen to you, either. It's not going to anytime soon. You can keep typing whatever garbage you want. Makes no difference to the reality of things.
What do you disagree with Sowell on?
I only wish Walter Williams had more recognition as he was "The other Sowell". RIP Walter E Williams!
Sorry, but there is NO OTHER Sowell.
Thomas Sowell is a unique gift from God.
@@2024Trumper He studied under Milton Friedman.
I’ve actually read more from Walter Williams than Thomas Sowell. I guess that’s because he had his newspaper column for all those years. You can still look up his old columns on line. And they are still relevant.
I think ww used to fill in for rush, i think if America has any hope it,d have to be the black conservative, Candace owens \ larry elder ticket
Both paid by the swamp to defend the swamp. They're ideas are not original, just copy & pasted from the swamp's playbook
“An idea that fit the vision, did not have to meet the additional requirement, of fitting the facts.” ....such a brilliant quote.
In law school, I had a very personal conversation with a professor who was black. He had worked hard to increase the number of black students, but they didn't do well and he was blamed. (Had he been a follower of Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell he would have understood the mistake.) Somehow we spoke about housing projects and their decay in the nearby city. I told him I saw the same decay when I studied in Ireland and the same dysfunction. Thomas Sowell nails it. It's not race. It is the government policies that shapes the response.
It's tends to be both. Go back to the 1500s. Also. I don't blame whites for the bad behavior of blacks, I blame certain whites for their own bad behavior and racism and I blame certain blacks but still racism is there
Same in South America. Socialism has destroyed once a powerhouse economy in Argentina. Govt stepped in and destroyed families. Placed fear in the population. Kept everyone stupid. Look at them now. One of the poorest country's in the world. Inflation over 60%. Two currency values. Govt blames racism, and capitalism for the destruction of the country.
@@karlcarlysle3578 I don't understand your comment. Racism is there? So? It will always be there. People of different race are still very successful all over the world. Bad choices and laziness is the problem. You are playing victim to something you have no control over.
@@rogerdana7950 I remember meeting a teacher from Venezuela who was in a panic when Chavez came to power. All her fears came true.
@@kec7116 all of Latin America is a disaster. Europe and the Euro is going to fall if they don't change.
The factual analysis and research by Professor Sowell remains world-class. I would have really liked learning in his classes decades ago when I was in college…. But as a life-long learner I learn from him with most of his videos.
Every time I feel even slightly informed and intelligent, Thomas Sowell puts me in my place. Absolutely brilliant..
Perhaps you aren’t that informed or intelligent .
Don't stop doing research. Think for yourself.
Thomas Sowell is smart but not all his arguments are perfect. But neither are his detractors perfect.
@@OriginMSD yeah…. Most average Americans are basically locked into the matrix that is America. If they weren’t they would rebelled a long time ago. What a god awful place! It’s only good for Disney world ….
@@OriginMSD why would you think I think ANYBODY'S arguments are perfect? His just have less holes than most. More importantly, when applied to real life they have exceedingly better results than others. The first step to being intelligent is realizing how dumb you are.. then you take it from there. Thomas Sowell is acutely aware of that fact, and I admire people considered intelligent that realize this fundamental reality of life.
@@randylahey8207 what evidence do you have that Dr. Sowell’s arguments are superior to anyone else’s? What makes you think that his arguments have no holes in them? I did find a few holes, missing relavent information, etc. in this video alone.
Mr. Sowell does his homework!, Videos of him go back decades, ive never known him to be wrong ever! He does the research! Hes had a rich,fruitful life but America let a Jewel slip through her fingers!
If we had more Educators like Dr. Thomas Sowell. Parents wouldn’t have to worry about someone Transgenderlysing and Indoctrinating our Children. All day long Yahoo
I think we did earlier on in our nation’s development. Somewhere along the way (50s,60s) we let liberal thinking pollute our ethical and moral principles. It was a slow process but sure and steady. Now here we are wondering what happened.
@@TomBTerrific True that all day long. Yahoo
Ignorance is not Bliss! MWM
I'm a moderate conservative and also trans. I give my children all the facts and let them make up their own minds, as long as they can back their arguments. We respect disagreements in our house, but we do agree on researched facts before arguing the merits and pitfalls they present to us. I hope they do better than you in social media, demonizing trans people as some sort of social indoctrination.
My life is normal after transition. Without anyone telling me, I was a person twisted up and living in fear. I came out anyway, despite the dangers, because the alternative was death.
Then the psychology world and, later, the WHO took it off their list of mental illnesses a handful of years later. Trans people have always been here, some braver and more visible than others. We felt that we had to hide because of society's serious bigotry problem with those who are "other." You should be more worried about why we so dramatically despise our fellow Americans with differing opinions instead of finding a convenient new scapegoat minority to trash.
I fight for my right to exist by leaving my front door. I go to work and I serve the American people in a close and personal way, maintaining the utmost professionalism. If I had been accepted and raised to be a strong, independent woman who just happened to have a surgery or two, I would have been just like any other person born differently, like being deaf or blind or having a few fingers missing or a clubfoot or being intersex. Instead, I grew up in fear and feeling like I had to hide and it ate at my soul.
Humans aren't perfect. I admit that I wasn't born perfect. Having a third nipple or micropenis or lazy eye or being autistic or any number of other physical oddities is considered quite normal. Being born trans or gay is too. Please think and do some research before deigning to diminish an experience of which you know nothing.
@@trappedkitty5335 Honest questions:
Are you sure you present all the facts and also do not present non-facts as facts?
And what does "back up their arguments" mean?
How old were your kids when they had to back up their arguments?
moral squalor. it has been 3 decades since Sowell penned these words and I have yet to find a term that improves upon it. Moral squalor. It is what America has decayed to. A nation of people living in self made hells of moral squalor.
I'd just add to that, that being what most people consider "moral" /having "high morals" doesn't guarantee anything. Just that it's good to keep that in mind. While overall, for the culture or society at large, it definitely helps a lot, even people who value and follow through on it, can still experience their sinful, lost, dark, blindness have negative effect on their life or that of those in their lives. Whether - at best - in mental assent to God's word and the gospel which falls short of true heart/will surrender and new birth in the life of a person who is quite decent and well behaved and not lacking love, to the worst - those who ooze evil &/or pride and selfishness in all sorts of ways, while technically seeming to not exactly break the criminal or cultural laws in any major way. Again, I DO think it's better overall for many people, the more we have wholesome decency as a standard, especially the kids, BUT many, many people are easily deceived when living in a wholesome family in a wholesome neighborhood and experiences, into misleading, mistaken impressions about their status, their need, our world and this life. For everyone's eternal sake, I just pray we all do our best to prayerfully be careful to keep that in mind, and seek how God would have us think, speak and act, in light of that. I'm no expert, just have lived, learned and observed enough to have this conviction.
Moral desert also fits.
well the marxist/Left has taken God out of the equation.and that's the first step to moral decay
@@ajb.822 Having high morals pretty much guarantees you won't stoop below a certain level regardless of what else you accomplish, & that's enough for a lot of us.
America has decayed to moral squalor?
It's FAR too left wing and despicably PC, but at least has free speech and the right to self defense.
What other countries have that?
That would mean all countries are in moral squalor.
Taking away individual responsibility is a helluva drug.
A nation of pampered addicts
As part of the smallest minority group in a South East Asian country, I’m always afraid moral decay and victimhood mentality will lead to genocide one way or the other.
Hopefully your group isn’t/won’t become too successful then.
The commenter above is confused. Hopefully your group will excel and remain morally strong and became pillars of the community and your country as a whole.
Resentment, grievance, and bitterness... Leads to loss of civilization..
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Tim. 4:3-4)"
I am glad that I have learned about this guy Thomas Sowell, he is an intellectual master that deserves all the respect he can get.
Baldwin was beautiful!!!
Thank you, O God, for Dr Sowell.
100% correct.
In an act to make things better for themselves they made it worse
College students should all have to write a paper on Thomas Sowell.
@Bantu Kingdom
That will never happen.
@@slickrick8046: Certainly not in liberal colleges.
@@SouLoveReal
Over 90% of the universities are economically Keynesians or Marxist leaning.
@@slickrick8046 yeah they would rather praise Karl Marx and Tupac
Colleges do everything they can to keep the mental shackles on people.
It’s insane for anyone even a small group of individuals to believe that destroying the very neighborhoods in which they live is going to alleviate them of their grievances
Ahhhhh Professor Sowell, you're such an intellectual and moral treasure and sooooooo badly needed these days, soooooooo fundamentally important and directly relevant to the mess Western society is in. Yeoman's work, Sir, veritably yoeman's work! Salute, Sir!
Excellent summary. Thanks for the simple and non judgmental video.
Self Pride and Respect has been turned upside down!
This should be shown to students in schools
Thank you again for sharing your incite
finely reasoned discourse. No cracks, assertions, straw man claims, false attributions that I can tell
I read Baldwin's "Go tell it on the mountain " and "Another country " decades ago. I wanted to read something Adult. Enjoyed them. I watched Dr. Sowell's testimonies during the Supreme Court hearings. I've read his works appreciatively. Good take Thomas.
LL. I read a baldwin short story decades ago, cant remember the title but baldwin was a great writer if that one story was any indication, but his leftism was typical hogwash.
@@shivasirons6159 I agree that Baldwin was a great writer. I hope you enjoyed that short story, but many good writers are leftists. Comes with the territory. ☺
Who cares man just enjoy the dang story
The tactic of language and false narrative has not changed.
You will credit for your post. Hat tip.
The whole goal is to keep divisiveness alive
Sadly most blacks will lose another generation of growth.... Few blacks close to the suits will act as the virtue signallers
@@reginaford8575
That's the essence of Marxism.
Facts don't lie ! People lie to fit their own desperation while running from the reality of the Truth !
“quiet violence” 1960s liberal code
“micro-aggressions” 2020s woke code
will get the answer to this problem!
Sowell is 91 years old 💀. Blew my mind. A treasure
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure!
Obviously, Mr. Sowell grew up in a different environment than where I am from. I remember growing up in Jacksonville, Florida where there were no one pissing and urinating in elevators black or white 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Hello, was that due to racism or personal choices?
The point that Dr. Sowell was making was that he didn't experience this bad behavior growing up in Harlem in the 40's and 50's either, but it started showing up in the 60's and later when progressive ideology was put more into practice.
@@ST8URCASE personal racism🙋🏽♂️
“Hate speech is tech monopolies hating free speech.” -Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
I implore everyone to listen to the Baldwin v Buckley debate.
Strong words. Real talk.
Amazingly well said yet again. God Bless this man's intelligence, bravery, and actual compassion.
A lack of self control is due to the self. We all have agency.
ya simple as that
So how did Baldwin get out -- unmuzzled, at that? If he's correct, why was he not stifled from childhood?
‘Moral squalor and barbaric behavior’….exactly
LMAOOOOO
I remember as a shy young teenager going to dances and see my less shy friends easily approach girls to dance or just chat. I lacked confidence and feared rejection. Often even as we grew older I would hear my friends say things to girls that were totally BS. I would wonder silently if the girls really believe them. Then not so long ago I heard Dr Sowell state that the US had a propensity to discard things that worked for those things that sound good. Perhaps that’s human nature. Chase the fantasy and ignore the reality. I see it with out politicians when running for office making promises that were never intended to be fulfilled. Guess that’s why Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and other notable black leaders are listened to by the black community. Unfortunately they are never held accountable for their words and the general population suffers long after those leaders have moved on to the next opportunity.
The average american has just been completely dumbed down & brainwashed for decades..
Tom, Jesse Jackson could have been a real leader like MLK, but he turned out to be just another politician and a bad one at that!
Brilliant !
if you treat each person as an individual you should fine...
So... what explains the poverty and lower living standard among black neighborhoods? How did they initially started to decay? I always thought 80's crack epidemic was at fault, but it seems things started even before that?
It’s not a sense of victimhood which leads to this but lack of opportunity and having your neighborhood flooded with drugs.
It's called demoralization.
@Chip Belori Drugs were a big part of it. You combine that and the lack of employment opportunities and you’ve got a neighborhood that’s going to rot and smolder. Can’t get a good job, there’s easy money to be made slinging dope, which in turn creates degeneracy among the populace. Gotta ask yourself: how did so much come into these already modest, even poor neighborhoods? It’s not like there were dudes in the neighborhood that frequented Colombia or SE Asia for the business opportunities of selling drugs. Also ask why the crack epidemic was treated by the media as a criminal problem and the opioid epidemic was regarded as a public health crisis…
Love to learn thanks for the channel.
I want to thank you for all you do! I would also like to say that I have been proud of the way you're handling your family crisis. For a person to be able to hold it together and still bring so many others happiness and joy after such a tragedy in their life is inspiring. We pray for you and your family every night and hope that your life is wonderful as it possibly can be under its circumstances.Once again thank you for all you do it is appreciated!
James Baldwin eventually repatriated to the nation of France!
Never a fan of Balwin.
Fabian. Socialist. Maybe more...
@@gerrystevens1694
Baldwin’s major impact is he was intersectional before the term “intersectionality” was coined.
Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing
Dr. Sowell don’t don’t miss
Thanks for sharing the graphics and content of the book MR Thomas Sowell!
Mr. Sow3ll is very articulate. He is very knowledgeable and can explain tough situations. He calls it right without shame. I wish I could talk to him one on one. Great job sir.
Another great video. My only suggestion: I could persuade more people to watch if the title was changed to "How Ideology Destroyed Communities | Thomas Sowell" or "How Progressive Ideology has Destroyed Many Communities | Thomas Sowell".
I admire your work and hope you are not offended by my suggestions. I want more people to see it and learn from Professor Sowell.
The clickbait title got me to watch, the content have me feeling a little misled. Hesitant to watch more
Thank you for the suggestions. The video was strictly supposed to be about James Baldwin, which is why his name had to be included in the title. The other intellectuals simply shared the same vision, which is why they got included. We didn't know any other better way to put it. We often call people by their names, so you have Chomsky, Richard Wolff and others mentioned in our videos, which is why this channel is considered extremely controversial.
Your comment is greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
@@blacksteve22 Sorry you felt that way. It wasn't meant to be a click bait.
Epic Response. This channel is refreshing in a sea of incivility (especially online).
If things are really stressful... I look to Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson & Norm MacDonald (RIP) to revive my faith in humanity.
Thank you for your contribution to the world & I suspect many will study this work for years to come.
Baldwin was a far greater moral and intellectual force than Sowell could ever hope to be. Sowell is a bright man, but Baldwin was brilliant.
Excuse making will always get you what you always got. A squaller of behavior
Great clip, thanks guys.
I guess they forgot about all the drugs that magically appeared in our communities
It's Easy to Sound WISE...in Hind-sight! How ever,I Lurves me some Sowell! x M
Dr Thomas Sowell making sense out of so much understanding and misinformation among the general public
That above should have been "misunderstanding".
If you consider what other groups receive these kinds of considerations; that favor should be applied regardless of their actions. You realize just how prejudice liberals are. What are those groups? Children and mentally disabled people. Liberals advocate that we treat minorities (the ones they like anyway) just as we treat children and mentally disabled people.
Tom be on the move!
Thanks much.
Yes, default violence is easily manipulable.
Who doesn't love facts!
Sowell is the intellectual equivalent of a toxic Reddit commenter next to James Baldwin.
Yo its so funny im working on a project that draws heavily on Baldwin as a rational thinker
The antidote to intellectualism is as it always has been - common sense. Paraphrasing Schopenhauer.
Don't let anyone oversimplify your mind.
If everything is horrific & no one cared at all, would beat u, would u complain?
Fast forward 150 years & you're a person... but circumstances tell u you're an inferior person. People start talking about it. But there's little open backlash against that talk, either because some people feel way too powerful or not threatened by it to even bother, or because the argument is so new that anybody who would agree with it at all hasn't heard enough of it to push back against it. Or because anybody not rich, or poor enough to be affected by it, is too busy putting food on the table. You couldn't pay an extra $1.50 a month to download as many videos as you wanted to a computer in your pocket in the 1960s, that you could listen to all day if you wanted. That's about how much the $12 that TH-cam charges for that now. Had to go hear these talks were they were being given, you had to be invited. You want to know what books to read, read the New York Times.
Maybe without any kind of sympathetic ideology, crack and redlining wouldn't have been enough to cause all these problems.
But even Malcolm X actually said that desegregation actually hurt the black community, bc before then they kept many more of their own dollars
Thomas Sowell, an American treasure. I can only strive to be as well versed when I complete my university education.
Bold absolutest poetic statements gets more traction than the truth which is often more nuance and complex. So do scapegoats...
When it comes to urinating in the elevators I'm getting the feeling no one would tolerate that regardless of what race they are. Someone who does that isn't doing it because they're racially oppressed but because they got other issues, like mental health issues. To be honest, who isn't going to complain to someone running the building if someone urinates in a public spot.
schizoidboy, in economics this is called tragedy of the commons, it just means anything funded publicly ends up being vandalized or abused in some way, it’s why bus stops get defaced, because you don’t pay for it directly the way you do your shoes or clothes or car.
Look up info on any major cities projects/government provided housing and you will see exactly what is described by Sowell. It is hard to believe but definitely still happening.
Seems PROGRESSIVE INTELLECTUALS is an oxymoron.
If we had more Educators like Dr. Thomas Sowell? Parents wouldn’t have to worry about someone Transgenderlysing and Indoctrinating our Children 👧. All day long Yahoo
Sowell wants to place all responsibility for their sometimes bad behavior on blacks. That is no more true than is its opposite, that blacks bear no responsibility. Many factors contribute, including things like the the relative lack of generational wealth among black populations compared to whites. It’s naive to ignore slavery as a factor in this. It’s also naive to ignore the long-term effects of ongoing racial discrimination on black population. Examples of this include the cynical gerrymandering of congressional district lines in many (most?) states & the soul-murdering preponderance of Jim Crow laws & practices after the Civil War & well into the 20th century. And Sowell is disingenuous in using his own experience as an example of typical black experience in the US. He ignores the whole body of literature on privilege, one of the more insidious & universal examples of which is maleness. In short, Sowell’s work is short on social science legitimacy.
No such thing as an Intelligent intellectual.
Well Thomas Sowell meets that criteria
@@TheFischer72 you beat me to it, Glenn!!
@@fletchkeilman2205 Boom, for you.
@@TheFischer72 Boom, for you.
@@TheFischer72
Thomas Sowell recognizes that he too is an “intellectual” and is not smarter than the common man in the free market. So you’re wrong.
Well shit on me it’s going to be impossible for me to read Baldwin with the same enjoyment ever again Professor Sowell is a treasure now those Baldwin books will collect dust 😂
It’s unfortunate that Baldwin was just a communist agitator which in todays vernacular is community organizer. He was making a living off of victimhood while Sharpton was still in high school. Good idea to let those ideas collect dust. You’ve got plenty of Sowellsbooks to choose from for facts instead of rhetoric and blame games.
Sell them to someone you don't like.
Post-Nihilist Atheist: _If there is a reason for intelligence and imagination it _*_might just be_*_ that the Cosmos is trying to make sense of itself._ Cutely anthropomorphic.
@mr oko We could have a 'moustache off; to settle the dispute - I'd win BTW, I grown a monster that has its own hairdresser plus assistant.
Thomas Sowell is embarrassing. This isn't some neutral historical fact meant to make to educated. It's a specific narrative to contradict another. That is the actual history of the US government policy at the time, ie redlining and subsidized housing with the requirement none be sold to African-Americans. Let me know when Sowell teaches you about the actual things Baldwin was criticizing instead of taking a simple strawman to disagree with the man's ideology. The fact that you would throw away his books by the way is one of the lost hypocritical things you can do by the way. If that's the type of behavior you think Sowell and his supporters like to see then I would drop the act of thinking of yourselves as level-headed, neutral or unbiased. I'll say one more thing on behalf of Mr. Baldwin, he didn't resent people that acted "barbarous" as Mr. Sowell seems to. What naturally follows from thinking about selfhood, is that it deals directly with how you think about your relationship with others. It's called showing a little sympathy for your fellow man.
Give them to me
The exact spot I got carjacked and shot at in 1990 a block from Howard University in Washington DC is exactly the same now yet everything around this small complex is new, shiny and expensive looking. I'm sure the tenants love the telescoping pole with 6 cameras watching them that's parked in the street too. A lot of my friends saw what happened there and it wasn't about race but a gang war.
As a non-black American, I believed all of their bullshit right up until the internet showed me what is really going on in those hellhole neighborhoods!
Two things can be true at once it’s not always one or the other
So you really don’t know what you’re talking about, you just read the internet? The dumbing down of humanity.
@@kylegaines1268lol- reading isn’t the problem. I read too much in college and they nearly made me into a communist. It’s the videos I see of blacks behaving stupidly that changed my opinions. These are videos the MSM somehow never bothered to report on. 😂
@@SonOfTheOne111 so I guess you ignore any behavior for any other populations of people. Hmmm such as, killing and attempting to kill political figures? Pedophilia, domestic violence, drunken driving and drug dealing? Because I’m pretty sure, black people don’t have a monopoly on these behaviors. But I understand, looking down on people with brown skin allows you the ability to still feel superior in the US. Don’t worry we know you better than you know yourself.
What happened in Euclid (Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. 1926) was race motivated so it's not a huge cognitive leap to be skeptical and angry by continuation of the result of these destructive zoning laws which were quite likely, born out of racism.
Maybe they were wrong in this circumstance about this housing unit, but were right to be skeptical. How poor people were put in this position rests on a 1926 supreme court decision, wherein the defendant of removing low income housing from the community was likely motivated by race.
2nd, 8 May 2022
Someone also wants to deflect guilt
Some work in the field & some work in the house
This video is insane holy shit. "Squaller became the norm"
This so-called "Dr" is a pariah for good reason.
Why is the "Dr." a Pariah ,explainPlease??
I am wondering what effect the importation of crack cocaine had on the neighbourhoods? It seems to me that this is when things drastically changed. The gang situation became prevalent once drugs became a bigger factor with tons of easy money. Gangs and drugs can destroy any neighbourhood. Today drugs are proliferating in middle class white neighbourhoods with considerable destruction. The general public seems to react differently to that though.
Hello, the increase in unwed mothers and broken families in the 1970's laid the foundation for gangs, gangster rap and crack cocaine.
The opium trade was prevalent leading into the crack epidemic...it was already a network before the new thing showed up. Coupled with the increase in broken homes & public assistance incentives... it created a perfect storm.
I have no doubt there was foul play that took place...but the Vietnam war & the opium trade had already created societal stress that crooked people & dealers took advantage of to make a lot of $$$. The social assistance $$ provided money every month & many spent that on substances - leading to another generation more fractured then the last, due to arrests & mothers neglecting their children at a higher rate compared to the previous decades.
Yup and while we as black people need to take accountability and answer for that let us not forget that the cia had a HEAVY hand in that as well we can take accountability while also acknowledging how we’ve been wronged since we came here it’s not one or the other but two things CAN be true at once
John Adams after the Boston Tea Party: "There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered-something notable And striking."
Wow you just also covered the CVS burning bombings and looting. This is why I love your videos
The three most important things in determining the success of humans are culture, culture, and culture.
It must be amazingly comforting to think of oneself as a powerless victim if people who aren't powerless victims want to view themselves as that, regardless.
Classic debating a men when he is six feet under is beyond disrespectful.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
-Thomas Sowell
"I'm writing for people. I don't believe in white people. I don't believe in black people either, for that matter. But I know the difference between being Black and White at this time. It means that I cannot fool myself about some things that I could fool myself about, if I were white." - James Baldwin
"I was born at a certain time, in a certain skin, in a certain place. And you pay for it. Everybody pays for... that." - James Baldwin
Sometimes we misunderstand Human beings that understand they're being perceived as Black, White, Gay, Straight, Trans, Christian, American, as the ones who actually believe that they're Black, White, Gay, Straight, Trans, Christian, American.
If you think of yourself as Black or White, James Baldwins words mean one thing to you. If you think of yourself as human and or nothing at all, his words mean something else.
Its not about the person, its about what they're saying and how much you are aware of. No one is perfect, not even Baldwin.
Great work Dr. Sowell. Scooby snacks for you!
While I agree with Thomas Sowell on a few things, I must add some corrections to this video. The 1960s were different for a variety of reasons, not just the proliferation of people like James Baldwin. Most importantly, during the late 60s following the end of WW2 and the 50s projects for the Cold War and highways many manufacturing companies moved to suburbs, automated workers, outsourced labor, etc. part of this was the lower demand following the end of the war. In addition blacks AND whites lost jobs but blacks were relegated to lower income areas due to restrictive covenants which weren’t made unconstitutional until after the war, and even then they stayed in the same neighborhood due to lower income. Many blacks didn’t leave but worked menial, low-income jobs for much of the 1960s while some companies made profits. It was also a time when television became popular, as did Space exploration. Blacks People were aware of the opulence of America but were unable to take part in it. White flight had taken capital away from business districts, Jews left housing projects making room for surging black populations, and lower businesses meant education was underfunded while the number of students to rose. All of this played an important role in the riots but was not mentioned. While I don’t deny the civil rights movement was an important incentive, and that the riots did worsen economic conditions, the original socioeconomic conditions, racist discrimination in jobs and housing, and the deindustrialization of Detroit can’t be ignored. I like Dr Sowell, but these videos don’t always cover all the relevant information.
I grew up in NYC government housing for many years and the housing project that I grew up in was predominantly white.. with some puerto rican families moving in. My parents were immigrants from Italy & Romania.. they used to tell me as a teenager the " city projects" ruined the neighborhood. even though they replaced the crumbling tenements which my parents lived in before the city put them up in the mid-1950s.. they said it did something to people's minds.. I could never understand it until I got older because I was able to see the corrupt politicians brainwash the folks that lived there.. by the mid to late 60s the mindset was already changing among the folks that lived there.. even I could see it as a teenager.. the corrupt liberal, Left politicians in NYC did not want hard working folks living there they wanted folks to be dependent on the city for everything.. which is what happened.. they encouraged folks daily to be dependent on the government for handouts. i watched the city implement all of these programs ..
Bullshit. Please study Dr. Sowell more carefully.
Whoa there! You are combining like four to six decades of events into like one decade in a big generalized summary of the decline of inner city downtown urban centers and the decline of American manufacturing, which the decline of American manufacturing is actually complicated and has been debunked. The decline of American manufacturing is actually happening now. What you are describing is the rise of the Midwest 'Rust Belt', which played out like a domino effect and was caused by bad Federal economic policy and perhaps corrupt politicians including some of the worst US Presidents in American history. Also Thomas Sowell is correct about the Detroit race riots, which caused the collapse of the industrial heartland of America, thus creating the Rust Belt and impoverishing many Midwestern Americans, not just blacks. Your interpretation that only blacks suffered from the fall of Detroit and the collapse of many factory towns across the Midwest is not accurate. The Midwest is still to this day regarded as economically depressed in several areas due to the collapse of the economy of so many communities. Redlining in Detroit, Pontiac, other cities in Michigan, and other cities in the US during the 1940's-1960's was done by the Federal Government that literally pushed on communities the same way the LBJ's Great Society program pushed urban development and the creation of the housing projects or current President Biden is pushing equity and the Green New Deal. Redlining was advertised by the government to be positive for communities, which history later showed was actually impoverishing minority Americans.
Apartheid ended in 1964. The persecution and racism did not end in 1964. The Detroit race riots happened in 1967 and the violence and crime only kept increasing and the racial violence is still happening to this day. That racial violence is happening in cities across America and has been spreading to new places since the 2020 race riots. Detroit is a great example that the Federal Government is repeating history right now. Crime is up in New York City and Chicago and Los Angeles, which did not collapse and loose most of their population like Detroit did, but if things get bad enough, they could depopulate just like Detroit. In 1967, when Detroit was lit up like a birthday cake, the Canadians in Windsor in Canada across the Detroit River were lining up watching the fires. The Canadians were confused and scared because they were trying to figure out why an American city was burning.
@@goatface6602 not an argument my good friend
The narrative from the news media and not fitting the facts! Wow who would have thought
Black people: we want public housing!
America: fine, here you go.
Black people: WHY DOESN'T IT LOOK LIKE BEVERLY HILLS!
America: ......
@Cannab-al
That New Deal crap was for white folks so your history is way off.
To be honest , anywhere looks better than Mariupol ( Ukraine) now.
@@slickrick8046 🤦
Public housing was started to serve Ialian and Irish immigrants
@@cameo1013
Yea, white folks.
I've lived no farther than 8 miles and presently live .5 miles from Rutgers University. I can tell you that it has, for many years, had the moniker of "The Little RED Schoolhouse." Leftist as it can be.
It was no surprise the professor mentioned, had a hand in fomenting the race concepts mentioned. The only thing I like about RU, is the Agricultural college.
In the 60s he was right he wasn’t lying
Yuri Bezmenov warned us 49 years ago.
Talk, Talk, Talk…
You just explained why the BLM created so much destruction. They normalized it and made it the ideal behavior. Wow maybe I got this epiphany wrong but explain some stuff. I wish I'd met you in real life
I'd have to disagree, because at the end of the day we are humans, and experiences and circumstances play a large part in our reactions.
The comment "from victims to masters" is very actual today even if now there are different groups emerging as masters than blacks.