RE: Culture and Race are not the same thing: Could it be culture that is the cause for elevated police encounter fatalities rather than race? Is BLM aiming for the wrong causation?
I like Thomas Sowell's video about the irish in America, after watching that and his other videos about black culture before the 50's I have concluded (not sure whether this was Mr. Sowell's conclusion or not but I felt that this was where he was leading) that it was black culture learning from the irish culture that caused most of the cultural problems facing the black community. I'm of course just talking about internal problems and not denying that there are external problems as well.
His book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" supports your thesis that culture is operative in socioeconomic disparities. Further, he supports that American blacks inherited a redneck/cracker culture that goes back as far as 16th century Scotland.
Sowell himself is black. He's an economist, and a former Marxist, now a free market advocate. His book "Basic Economics" is a classic.
I like Thomas Sowell's video about the irish in America, after watching that and his other videos about black culture before the 50's I have concluded (not sure whether this was Mr. Sowell's conclusion or not but I felt that this was where he was leading) that it was black culture learning from the irish culture that caused most of the cultural problems facing the black community. I'm of course just talking about internal problems and not denying that there are external problems as well.
No I am not. Do you have a link?
His book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" supports your thesis that culture is operative in socioeconomic disparities. Further, he supports that American blacks inherited a redneck/cracker culture that goes back as far as 16th century Scotland.
Sowell himself is black. He's an economist, and a former Marxist, now a free market advocate. His book "Basic Economics" is a classic.
I listened to the first book here:
Basic Economics here:
Thanks I appreciate this. I'll watch it here sometime today.