Also outstanding.
I love Thomas Sowell.
Read the whole thing!
Beautiful nugget:
"...intellectuals see themselves as friends, allies, and defenders of
racial minorities, even as they paint them into a corner of cultural
stagnation. This allows the intelligentsia to flatter themselves that
they are on the side of the angels against the forces of evil that are
conspiring to keep minorities down."
"When they cannot come up with hard evidence in any particular case to
support this theory, that just proves to the intelligentsia how
fiendishly clever and covert these pervasive efforts to hold down
minorities are."
"Why people with high levels of mental skills and rhetorical talents
would tie themselves into knots with such reasoning is a mystery.
Perhaps it is just that they cannot give up a social vision that is so
flattering to themselves, despite how detrimental it may be to the
people they claim to be helping."
Perhaps?
FOR SURE.
