 Not all reviews were positive.In "The Washington Post", Steven Pearlstein argued that Sowell's pinning of the blame for black poverty on multiculturalism and welfare is unconvincing, and added that "ghetto culture" cannot explain the problems in white America.Pearlstein wrote that the book "is filled with such instances of overreach" and stated, "What we [...] learn from "Wealth, Poverty and Politics" is that there is apparently no level of inequality of income or opportunity that Thomas Sowell would consider unacceptable."