17 Replies to ““easy for a rich white man to say.””

  1. Our youngest brother introduced me to the writings of Thomas Sowell back in the late 70’s or perhaps it was 1980 with his thesis turned into a book titled “Ethnic America”. It was excellent and exhibited his trademark style of easy writing for easy comprehension.
    I always feel smarter after I have read one of his books and any of the books by Malcolm Gladwell. They both use rich anecdotes and street English in their writing.

  2. Big Momma, I don’t remember when I first discovered or encountered Thomas Sowell’s writing but I have been a fan for a very long time. Both he and Walter Williams were and continue to be must reads. They have the ability to speak/write and be understood, no baffle gab. Too bad they are both old like me.

  3. This reminds me that it’s time to read Vision of the Anointed again. I think I’ll make it a two-fer and re-read the essays in Black Rednecks and White Liberals too.

    Thomas Sowell is why I have little truck with hard-core racists. I would much rather spend time with and learn from him than someone like Charles Manson. There’s much more to a civilized man than his skin tone.

  4. I’m listening to his audio books, he has good narrators with clear and pleasant voice like Tom Weiner. After a long drive I feel enlightened rather than nauseated by listening to radio playing the latest 20 pop songs over and over again.

  5. Thomas Sowell would have made a fine president of Liberia had his people been serious about living in freedom—and were anywhere close to being as oppressed as they claim to be (as opposed to being the richest and most pampered blacks on planet Earth).

    1. Thomas Sowell would have made a great president of the United States.
      “His people” are all the freedom loving citizens of the United States. Apparently being such a racist you cannot grasp such an idea.

      1. My thoughts as well. Per my comments above, SG identifies more strongly with Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer because they’re the correct race.

          1. Yes, from the same keyboard. Same hatred for the same races and religions. Same strange name of what he calls the Muslims. Same reference to the name the Chinese race calls itself as though it were an insult. He has made some changes. Unlike AC, he claims he has nothing to do with Russia, but shows the same hatred for Ukrainians, whose greatest sin was resisting Russian aggression.
            I believe this is the fourth iteration. I have forgotten the intermediate noms de guerre. It doesn’t take long for the stench to seep through.

  6. Have few favored people.
    Socrates, Plato, Thucydides, Michelangelo, Leonardo, even Reagan and few others Thomas Sowell is among them.

    These and those like them deserve respect because they did it their own way regardless.

    As though, “You wanna talk shit? Go ahead, make my day.”

    1. Yes, the “former” is why he’s one of the smartest men in America. He studied it, saw it didn’t work, and changed his mind about supporting it.

      When reality doesn’t match your pet theory, the problem isn’t with reality. I don’t know if it’s humility or wisdom (or both) that set him on the right path to become such a great teacher.

  7. Been reading Dr. Sowell for years. His book “Intellectuals and Society” captures what we see today, especially Trudope and his ilk. His columns are jewels to reread several times.

  8. There are many great videos of Mr. Sowell taking on the usual left think…..one with F.F. Piven
    comes to mind
    No wonder he has been kept hind all these years.

  9. “Uncommon Knowledge’ interviews with Thomas Sowell are very good.

    When Thomas Sowell sees a sacred cow he fires up the barbecue.

  10. For those interested, I found the referenced review by Aidan Byrne. It was written in 2012. At the very bottom is this notation:
    Amendment: This review was amended on 22 November 2017. The original post contained the line ‘easy for a rich white man to say’. This has been removed and we apologise for this error.
    There is no mention of how this “error” might have possibly affected the gist of the review.
    https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2012/05/26/book-review-intellectuals-and-society-by-thomas-sowell/

    As to what this creature is doing now, his bio on U. of Wolverhampton reveals his real area of research interest. I guess he was just slumming when he delved into reviewing Dr. Sowell:
    My 2008 PhD was on masculinity and extreme politics in Welsh interwar fiction, and I have published journal articles on Welsh literature, music in contemporary fiction, Doctor Who, Star Trek and Foucault (forthcoming), Welsh-language travel writing, Welsh post-industrial fictions and the relationship between erotic fan fiction and neoliberalism (forthcoming). I am currently working on Welsh and Irish modernisms and a major project on politicians’ creative writing.
    I have peer-reviewed for a number of journals and publishers including the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English, Almanac, Comparative Critical Studies and Routledge. I have recently examined 4 PhDs (Swansea, Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Wolverhampton) and an M.Phil (Edge Hill).
    And here are the qualifications he claims:
    BA Hons English (First Class) Coleg Prifysgol Gogledd Cymru / University College of North Wales, Bangor – 1996
    MA Welsh Writing in English, Prifysgol Cymru Bangor / University of Wales Bangor – 1998
    PhD ‘Constructions of masculinity in four 1930s Welsh novels in English: Lewis Jones’s Cwmardy and We Live, Richard Llewellyn’s How Green Was My Valley and Gwyn Thomas’s Sorrow For Thy Sons’, University of Wolverhampton – 2007
    PGC in Further and Higher Education, University of Wolverhampton – 2008

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