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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Thomas Sowell on 'Blacks and Republicans'

Thomas Sowell on 'Blacks and Republicans'




Crude said...

I think one part of the problem of 'making the case' to the black community is that ultimately, said case is "and this is why the benefits you see as not only important to your community, but owed to you, should end." It doesn't matter how good of a case you're making - at the end of the day, it all comes to taking something away, and not exchanging it for something of equal or greater (direct 1:1 monetary) value.

Which makes it very easy for the opposition to say, "They're lying to you. They want to harm you. They want you to starve, or be poor forever, or anything else. They're racists." And thanks to that social darwinism shit, and the fact that just about everyone now worships the government, that's an easy one to pull.

I don't have solution to this. And it's not like it's specific to blacks either (though there's obviously some particular problems there.) Try to take anyone's welfare away (like banker's welfare) and it's pretty damn easy to recast the whole thing in attack terms.