RubyNibs's Reviews > Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Gobsmacked. Excellence that should grace every home, every school, every library. Empirical evidence on a wide range of history that follows a common theme: the Redneck attitudes that are keeping down urban Blacks, why they are weighing down Blacks, their origin (shockingly, the Scottish Borderlands, the Ulster area of N. Ireland, and Wales--typically, at the time, reckless, shiftless people too proud to work until they had to), and how to dispel them.

Dr. Thomas Sowell takes us on a gut-wrenching tour of slavery in human history. He exposes Roots, by author Alex Haley, as, in Haley's own words, "a myth." Sowell exposes the brutality of the white slave trade that predominated in much of the world. He mentions current slavery and sex slavery, primarily under Islam.

Black education. Why some Black schools graduated incredible numbers of highly educated Blacks who went on to careers, not simply to vocations. And what went wrong, after 85 years of admirable teaching, when the government stepped in. (You can guess; the school went down the gutter, thanks to government intervention.)

This is one book that tells true history, without bias, from one of the big brains in the US, who used to be a Marxist, but has long since been a Conservative Black economist.