Void lon iXaarii's Reviews > Black Rednecks and White Liberals

I tend to follow experts in their fields... which often doesn't translate to other fields, as many people successful in one field turn out to be not that knowledgeable or skilled in another. Thomas Sowell is, for me, one of the few exceptions i know of. I Started reading his books because of his economics knowledge but i can so relate to his way of viewing the world that I can't stop following his books even when they're not directly in the field. Why? Because unlike many others he doesn't take things for granted, and instead applies solid research to presuppositions which many others take for granted.
This book hasn't only opened my eyes to many historical truths, facts about about the actions and structures of whole societies but even more valuably about the HUGE impacts that certain ways of thinking have across humanity, often regardless of place, time, biological or social backgrounds.
The book feels huge as it goes through several apparently independent sections jumping across fields like cultural European very white roots of some ghetto behaviors, the historic costs of violent machismo, the universal hate towards middleman minorities, analysis weather or not stigmas associated with certain peoples like the Germans are in fact reasonable and so on, the biggest and most costly totally surprising shift in thinking of humanity that i never knew of in terms of slaves...
More than once i've wondered what the unifying theme of the book might be... hard to say, but for me, personally, it is being blown away by just how huge an impact ways of thinking/behavior (with an accent on the latter, not very into intellectuals) cross any and all borders of space and time, for bad and for good.