Thomas Sowell is not alone in his expert analysis of the problems plaguing Americans, particularly those of color. A black man, a former Marxist, and a stellar economist, Sowell is not popular with the political left, not for leaving them so much as for having his own mind and for refusing to lie down and repeat their lies.
I remember this from a recent conversation between Matt Walsh and Jordan Peterson. Walsh’s “Am I A Racist” has been stirring the cultural pot and triggering proglodytes for weeks. Walsh and Peterson share a platform at the Daily Wire, so coming on each other’s podcasts makes sense. The conversation is loaded with useful moments, but in this one, they traverse a great divide. Peterson observes that whites are not at the top of the economic pile in America, making them the classic Marxist apex oppressors as advertised. People from India and Asia do better. African Immigrants also do very well in the United States, as do Jews, none of them of European colonialist stock.
Why, then, it is fair to ask, are black Americans still underperforming – leveraged by the left as victims – when so many people of color come here and succeed? The answer is a problem we ought to be able to lay squarely at the Liberal’s feet.
Is traditional marriage the commonality that aligns with success and freedom from economic or opportunity oppression? People who stay married are more likely to succeed regardless of other factors. Children who grow up with fathers are more likely to escape poverty (and a long list of other ills). Black families did well until free love, no-fault divorce, and the rise of one-parent families. The things Tom Sowell (and Walter E. Williams) reminds us of often.
Families matter.
Policy decisions, driven by political actors, are the source of the oppression, and many of those are people of color who benefit from keeping it that way.
So, how do we get back to that? Can we? Should we (could we)? As Matt mentions, white family decline is following Black families as (increasingly) are Hispanic. Divorce rates and single-parent households have been rising. Self-imposed cultural and demographic decline plague the nation in conjunction with the great replacement. Immigrants who start families are currently more inclined to stand on the family model but not always attuned to what makes the American Experiment possible.
One other point from the relevant conversation between Walsh and Peterson was not shared in that clip. Asian families, who do quite well by the third generation, join their white peers. American “culture” retunes them toward the problems that lead to fewer successes and lower income quintiles.
