Thomas Sowell at Lew Rockwell on when differences are just differences:
“In countries around the world, all sorts of groups differ from each other in all sorts of ways, from rates of alcoholism to infant mortality, education and virtually everything that can be measured, as well as in some things that cannot be quantified. If black and white Americans were the same, they would be the only two groups on this planet who are the same.
One of the things that got us started on heavy-handed government regulation of the housing market were statistics showing that blacks were turned down for mortgage loans more often than whites. The bean-counters in the media went ballistic. It had to be racism, to hear them tell it.
What they didn’t tell you was that whites were turned down more often than Asians. What they also didn’t tell you was that black-owned banks also turned down blacks more often than whites. Nor did they tell you that credit scores differed from group to group. Instead, the media, the politicians and the regulators grabbed some statistics and ran with them.
The bean-counters are everywhere, pushing the idea that differences show injustices committed by society. As long as we keep buying it, they will keep selling it – and the polarization they create will sell this country down the river.”
This article, I’m having a bit of a struggle with it.
I posted a bit over at Ferfal’s Grab The Apple forum and I wonder if I’ve got it all wrong:
The Real US Border Fence
Illegal Immigrants? I’m not picking on any one in particular here, but people seem to be really hung up & focused on shoo-ing away the hands that reach out for Free Services rather than questioning the re-distributionist idea of forcibly taking from one group & giving to another – for Free – that started & maintains this whole illegal immigration fiasco. Not to mention the Al Capone-like environment created by bad laws.
What do people think happens when a store gives out Free Steak, do they think people won’t show up in numbers & come back for seconds & thirds & hang around for more?
Rather than complain about and take positive steps to end the the Free Steak give away provided by the taxpayer (as they should) they instead focus on those who reach for it and how they grab. Don’t get me wrong, People Need To Get Mad As Hell, they just need to focus on the true causes.
There is a huge lack of clarity of the source of the problem. People are acting like having a drivers license means a person knows how to drive. Documentation means nothing in the big scheme of things, just look at the behavior of the Legal American banksters who continue to do what everyone here finds so repulsive, as if legality determines behavior.
On top of everything else lawmakers are talking about making a separate helot caste system of laws in Florida? Don’t people realize that these sort of things have a tendency to expand & include everyone except the ruling class? And the ruling class does not mean legal, or include you & I.
We don’t need The Berlin Wall on America’s border Or an increase of tyrannical laws.
The reply of, “crime rates among such and such group” is misleading too. It’s not the groups of different people that are the root cause, legal or otherwise. Just for one example, look at the “black” community in the U.S.A. prior to goberment stepping in and taking the place of the head of the household and assuming total responsibility for them (and eventually all of us) the, “black” community was made up of a highly literate, low crime, tightly knit strong family unit with a large religious base (the kind people like Rush Limbaugh long for) especially in the D.C. area. Forgotten history, I suppose. The result of Soviet styled Subversion of Education in America via goberment schooling?
People need to get mad as Hell, but at the correct cause.
LISHWABON = Life Is Sure HArd With A Boot On Neck.
When they squish = SHTF.
That’s my Two Cents, which has a value of less than One Cent due to inflation of the money supply.
/rant off.
http://www.grabtheapple.com/forum/general-discussion-round-table/how-long-will-shtf-last/page-2/
Very good Clark…
deserves a post to itself.
I’ll put it on the blog.
Excellent points…
I’ll just add a few links to it too. Fits in with Sowell and also a piece by Stuart Bramhall I say at Oped news
Thanks.