Converation thread

Debunking White Privilege: The Economic Realityhttps://youtu.be/AoHAG9UFaKI?si=VcBLkPoUCgUNYwTk

'socioeconomic status, school, funding, and historical segregation'

~~~One of the most polarizing and counterproductive liberal crusades of the 20th century has been the decades-long busing crusade to send black children to predominantly white schools. The idea behind this goes back to the pronouncement by Chief Justice Earl Warren that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

Yet within walking distance of the Supreme Court where this pronouncement was made was an all-black high school that had scored higher than two-thirds of the city’s white high schools taking the same test — way back in 1899! But who cares about facts, when you are on a liberal crusader that makes you feel morally superior?

To challenge government-imposed racial segregation and discrimination is one thing. But to claim that blacks get a better education if they sit next to whites in school is something very different. And it is something that goes counter to the facts.

Many liberal ideas about race sound plausible, and it is understandable that these ideas might have been attractive 50 years ago. What is not understandable is how so many liberals can blindly ignore 50 years of evidence to the contrary since then. ~~~

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.

'Crime and poverty are complex social issues rooted in numerous factors, including lack of economic opportunities, educational disparities, and systemic racism.'

All Democrat cities I guarantee have higher operating budgets than do Republican cities. Yet, the things they manage are not for Black American betterment. Because IF IT WERE - we wouldn't have Black youth graduating at the lowest rates, or be employed, or own homes, highest in poverty, or have 6,500+ Black American men die by the hands of their brothers every year, would they? WHY is that OK?

Do you know what moving homeless, and businesses to places like Modesto create? Take away? It takes away the money from Big Corp, and Democrat managed cities to more moderate-conservative cities. And you are wrong about your belief that inner cities managed by democrats is incorrect.