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Constantly on the prowl to punch the nearest liberal in the eye with mindless right wing tripe, and being totally unaware that most Americans could care less about liberals -- and even less about conservatives -- Tom Sowell, like all Uncle Toms, knows what side of his bread is buttered. He also knows when he has a good thing going. Like Rush Limbaugh, he has his own stable of "ditto heads," who "get a hard on" every time Sowell opens his mouth. For they know, like they know that the sun will rise from the East, that anything said by Sowell, will toe the racist conservative dogmatic ideological line to a tee. When Thomas Sowell opens his formulaic mouth, like Limbaugh, invariably more "warmed over conservative tripe" comes tumbling out. This book is just another classic case in point.

Like the circular cited secondary sources it depends on -- primarily Grady McWhiney's "Cracker Culture," David Hackett's "Albion Seed," Fredrick Law Omstead's "The Cotton Kingdom," Charles Murray's, "The Bell Curve," and Dinesh D'Souza's "The End of Racism" -- this piece too is the careless stringing together of anecdotal quotations taken out of context and fashioned into a pseudo social scientific hypothesis. Shame on this Senior Researcher for the Hoover Institute.

What kind of self-respecting institute would allow its staff members to continue producing such embarrassing ideological tripe? One star

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Retired Foreign Service Officer and past Manager of Political and Military Affairs at the US Department of State. For a brief time an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Denver and the University of Washington at (more...)
 
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