"All this time I keep askin' myself, when, O Lord, when's it gonna be our time? Gonna come a time when we all gonna have to ante up. Ante up and kick in like men. LIKE MEN!"
--Sergeant Major John Rawlins (Glory)
Similar to Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell observes the faulty thought processes espoused by progressives w.r.t. the socioeconomic problems of many blacks. They market a "legacy of slavery" as the primary cause of the problems.
Yet, data show measures of economic and social well-being such as youth employment, marriage, out-of-wedlock births have deteriorated only over the past 50 years for blacks. Prior to that, data for blacks were comparable to whites.
To synch up with the data, progressives need to argue that the 'legacy of slavery' is worse now than it was 100+ years ago when slavery was initially outlawed.
Such a claim, of course, is a tough sell to anyone who, as Thomas Sowell suggests, is willing to stop and think.
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