Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Part1

Cracker history or redneck history stemming from Scots-Irish immigrants rubbed off on southern blacks so much so that when the great migration occured the blacks brought that redneck culture to the north. No coincidence that the KKK might have emerged out of that ruckus, right?

Part 2

Middleman minorities earn the eyre of the societies they integrate into because of their economic success.

Part3

Slavery has some bad effects and some good effects but everyone was doing it. There is no need to compare the implementation because all slavery was the same.

Part 4

Really tho, middleman minorities are so successful that Germans turned to persecute them out of spite clearly. Most didn't even care about Jews being Jews...

Part 5

Blacks can learn at school and do but those dancing kappas obsessed with looking good ruined the colleges. WEB Dubois and Booker T would be ashamed.

Part 6

Seriously. Every culture commits mass genocide or commits some war atrocitiy. Just because some Australian lady feels bad about genocide doesn't mean that it's their fault. There aren't any indigenous people around to tell you how they feel anyway so be objective when you speak about history.

It was some of the wonky idiosyncrasies of the main tenants featured in each essay that causes me worry. Like bro what culture was in place such that the Holocaust could happen. That some of the largest social ills in the Western hemisphere of the last 200 years be committed exclusively against brown people and those of minority background deserve its own appreciation. I am not calling for relativsim or ignoring genocide elsewhere. I just have a feeling that slavery in Rome and slavery in China were two very different cultural phenomenons. It feels like anti-sematism is a feature not a bug. I am asked not to consider the cultural significance of oppression, but to consider the cultural significance of the population slaves adapted thier culture from. Ok. Survival tech is cool. I just have a strong feeling the legislation that intensified violence against blacks had something to do with this a priori. Or maybe blacks just needed to chill and wait for America to give them their rights. Like I could not understand the civil rights period if I read only Thomas Sowell.

But I do think he provides the strongest counter argument against systematic oppression or some innate inferiotiority being the main foil to black progress. We are in many respects responsible for how we are viewed in this society. I can't say I beleive in all the shit our culture gets up to. Sowell asks us to consider very real alternatives to the slave oppression narrative. Maybe instead of adopting Irish culture we should have adopted northern culture or perhaps Jewish culture or immigrant culture. Maybe that would have prevented Jim Crow lol(editing in 2025 maybe that would have prevented project 2025 lol). That thinking did seem to get HBCU's off the ground. My liberal gripe is that Thomas Sowell asks us to be responsible with how we attribute race to our cultural heritage while offering no insight into how we prevent the genociding of the minorites. We should care about that. I am confused.