Thomas Sowell grew up in Harlem and served in the USMC

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Thomas Sowell grew up in Harlem, served in the Marine Corps during Korean War...graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard, Masters from Columbia U...Economist, Social Theorist, Philosopher, Author...Senior Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University...National Humanities Medal... Francis Boyer Award...

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/thomas_sowell

 

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Sowell is the best informed man in the country regarding the destruction of the black family and the devastating effects that a half century of welfare have had on African-American society.

He is called an Uncle Tom, house ni**er, and worse by liberals.

This is a column he wrote in 2001 regarding reparations.

Blacks already have been the first victims of the campaign to get reparations for slavery. The longer this futile campaign goes on, the more additional blacks will be victimized.

How have blacks been victimized thus far? Some have been asked to supply identifying information, so that they can get their individual shares of the reparations.

Those who complied and supplied this information have since discovered that it was being used to steal their identities and saddle them with debts run up by con men.

The most important thing to keep in mind about reparations is that it is never going to happen. No Congress is going to pass, and no president is going to sign, a bill that takes money from the great majority of American voters to pay a debt that they don't feel they owe.

You are never going to convince people whose ancestors arrived in America after the Civil War that they owe anybody anything for what happened in the antebellum South. You are never going to convince people outside the South that they owe something for what happened in the South.

And you are never going to convince the descendants of the majority of white Southerners, whose ancestors were too poor to buy slaves if they wanted to, that they owe anybody anything.

https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2001/08-04/0002_thomas_sowell__risks_of_slave_rep.html

 

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It’s scary how naturally smart he is.