Thomas Sowell: Black and White, Left and Right

Thomas Sowell had a doctorate, so is indeed referred to as "Doctor". His pen name is simply "Thomas Sowell", but I had a conundrum: if I left out the honorific 'Doctor", would liberals have called me racist for diminishing Dr. Sowell? Or by referring to him as "Dr. Thomas Sowell", am I being patronizing and showing my racism?  Michelle Obama's response would have depended on her mood, er,...wait! Have I just been sexist? (Her mood swings decided her descriptions of a short lady asking for something on a top grocery shelf as funny on one TV talk show  and racist on another). What do I do? What DO I do?  TD
Oh, sorry; I forget why we were on this subject. Anyway. . . 

"The biggest difference between the left and right today, when it comes to racial issues, is that liberals tend to take the side of those blacks who are doing the wrong things -- hoodlums the left depicts as martyrs, while the right defends those blacks more likely to be the victims of those hoodlums."

Dr. Thomas Sowell   "Much is made of the fact that liberals and conservatives see racial issues differently, which they do. But these differences have too often been seen as simply those on the right being racist and those on the left not.

"You can cherry-pick the evidence to reach that conclusion. But you can also cherry-pick the evidence to reach the opposite conclusion.

"During the heyday of the Progressive movement in the early 20th century, people on the left were in the forefront of those promoting doctrines of innate, genetic inferiority of not only blacks but also of people from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe, as compared to people from Western Europe.

"Liberals today tend to either glide over the undeniable racism of Progressive President Woodrow Wilson or else treat it as an anomaly of some sort. But racism on the left at that time was not an anomaly, either for President Wilson or for numerous other stalwarts of the Progressive movement. . . . 

"Progressives spearheaded the eugenics movement, dedicated to reducing the reproduction of supposedly "inferior" individuals and races." . . .