![]() ![]() In numerous ways Sowell boldly challenges the racial orthodoxy that has prevailed largely unchallenged since the 1960s among leftist academics and the media elite. He ably supports his profoundly original and arresting vision with data that liberal analysts would prefer to ignore or have failed to grasp. He tackles a broad spectrum of issues, sweeping aside entrenched liberal clich?s and dogmas. ![]() These essays bring you the most enlightening results of Sowell’s over twenty-five years of fearless and groundbreaking research on racial and cultural issues. ![]() The Left, says Sowell, has turned dysfunctional “black redneck” culture into “a sacrosanct symbol of racial identity.” Why not? Their attempt to escape, as Sowell demonstrates in “Black Rednecks and White Liberals,” has been consistently and repeatedly hampered by white liberals. ![]() But while both white and black Southerners have moved up in class and affluence, Sowell notes that ghettos are still filled with “black rednecks” who have never escaped these self-destructive patterns. Many Southern blacks, Thomas Sowell explains, picked up the same habits. Lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral – that’s how Northern employers and cops regarded poor Southern “rednecks” as late as the 1940s and 1950s. ![]()
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