Question for everyone. I made a lengthy post yesterday but forgot to ask y'all somethign. As I mentioned yesterday I'm a black guy and I'll be 40 in a few days. I have a very large extended family and on Facebook there is always an endless stream of messages from my cousins going on and on about how "oppressed" they are and how hard it is to be black in America. Ironically, these cousins live in nice suburban neighborhoods and have good jobs. Then they spout off about these recent police cases.
Should I bother to debate them? I am so tempted sometimes to do my best Thomas Sowell or Milton Friedman impression and just hammer them with facts. Although I am so outnumbered and I have come to the conclusion that people who have a desire to find racism/oppression everywhere will see it everywhere. Same with modern day feminists who are "oppressed" for being women in the west on a daily basis according to them but can't lift a finger to help women in countries that truly have draconian laws against women.
Honestly, buy them a Sowell book, if they want to compare oppression points against a man who grew up in black harlem, was a high school dropout, joined the marines right after military desegregation in the korean war, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1958 , and became a fellow in the Hoover Institute in 1980. How does fucking Tupac have a documentary and not this man.
I know! And he was a marxist in his youth. I remember when they said “we need to hear black voices” I said I’d pass out Sowell books
He's the most highly regarded person on historical economics and societies aside from Jared Diamond, but his research and findings are too controversial for critical theory. Plus his critics of American policy have been spot on since the 70s to today.