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Second, here’s a great clip by Thomas Sowell, talking about social policy, and education. It’s just 11 minutes. He gets into some of the problems that emerged with urban crime and fatherless families. It’s very interesting to me that these problems of very violent gangs were NOT happening post slavery, nor was Black crime or fatherless families big problems during the Jim Crow era, or for 100 years post slavery. It if were a matter of genetics or even some cultural flaw that came from earlier times, why would it NOT be a problem in the 1920s, 30s, 40s. Suddenly this problem emerges in the 1960s and gets worse over the next 50 years until the present. This points to social policy change. That is NOT to say that slavery and Jim Crow had only negligible effects, or were not important, or that Blacks did not experience discrimination, and do not continue to do so.
I finally got a chance to view that video and I regret not making time earlier. Never even heard of Powell before that clip and honestly thank you for introducing him to me.
About what he talks about in the video is very interesting with how the Social Policy reforms invariably made the majority of Black peoples lives worse.
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If you like Sowell you should check out Economic Facts and Fallacies and Wealth, Poverty, and Politics . Both are very good.
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