Thomas Sowell on blacks and the left

Blacks are to the left today what the working class were to Marx in
the 19th century -- pawns in an ideological game.

Blacks who rise out of poverty are of no great interest to the left,
unless the way they do so is by attacking society.

The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits
since 1994 but the left has shown no more interest in why that is so
than they have shown in why many millions of people have risen out of
poverty in Latin America or in China and India.

Where progress can be plausibly claimed to be a result of policies
favored by the left, then such claims are made.

A whole mythology has grown up that the advancement of minorities and
women in America is a result of policies promoted by the left in the
1960s. Such claims are often based on nothing more substantial than
ignoring the history of the progress made prior to 1960.

Retrogressions in the wake of the policies of the 1960s are studiously
ignored -- the runaway crime rates, the disintegration of black
families, and the ghetto riots of the 1960s that have left many black
communities still barren more than 40 years later.

Whatever does not advance the left agenda is "nothing."

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