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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Then explain which progressive did this?
It is not the only example.
The Tulsa Race Massacre: 300 killed, 800 wounded, over 8,000 left homeless.
There were NO arrests. None. NO ONE was arrested. No one.
Actually there were no WHITE PEOPLE arrested. Many blacks rounded up, imprisoned -- for DEFENDING themselves!
We've come a long way since 1921, a year which was still in the grip of the classic "Progressive Era." Racist Woodrow Wilson (an admirer of the KKK) had just left office, but the Progressive notion that blacks were inferior was still the predominant view. Jim Crow was still in force. Are you implying that this kind of stuff is still going on?
Explain how the black community went from owning 14 million acres of land to sharecropping.
Is the "black community" still without land and still sharecropping?
Explain why a disproportionate number of blacks are jailed for nonviolent crimes.
Are they jailed because they are black, or because they committed a crime? Notice that you picked "nonviolent crimes." I would guess there are various factors. Such as past criminal history.
Or even bias. Might depend on the Judge. Crime, in general, has been decreasing. Been picking up lately since Biden got elected.
Are you suggesting that some disparities in sentencing (disparities which have also been decreasing) are a prelude to the return of Jim Crow?
And when you tout Sowell remember that the typical black household headed by someone with an advanced degree has less wealth than a white household with only a high school diploma.
Are you saying that blacks get paid less than whites for doing the same job? That's against federal law, isn't it? Or does the kind of advanced degree of a typical black household headed by someone with a degree disproportionately in some form of social discipline rather than a STEM discipline? Do whites have proportionately far more engineering and science degrees than blacks?
How about Asians? They do better than whites in that respect.
Are Asians racist or white supremacists because they do way better economically than blacks, and more than whites? Are they victims of systemic racism?
And how many "households" of black families are single parent headed by unwed mothers as compared to whites or Asians or even Latino?
How many white households have both parents working compared to blacks? Why do blacks always fall to the bottom of economic and criminal stats compared to Asians, whites, and Latinos?
But that is all imaginary or the product of progressive policies.
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In a sense, yes, Progressive policies, as Sowell points out, tend to encourage and enable blacks to remain in the cultural backwater that results in their disproportionate incarceration and economic stats.
Sowell pointed out that blacks did better in comparative stats during Jim Crow than after its elimination and replacement by the Progressive Great Society and the growing Progressive welfare state.
Sowell bases his conclusions on worldwide data in which poverty and crime have similar causes and result in similar circumstances across the globe. Trying to judge and understand racial disparities as if they are endemic here rather than universal leads to an ignorant bias that coddles the perceived "victims" of a supposedly systemically unjust society rather than demanding and teaching that they must embrace the cultural norms that lead to success--especially in the high tech economic environment into which we are barreling into.
The blacks who embrace that culture rather than the BLM and Critical Race Theory dead end deceptions will succeed, even more than Red Neck Whites. There is a growing number of blacks who realize this, and are doing well, and will teach their children to do the same.