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." . . .

Cadbury Drops The Word “Easter” From Their Easter Candy

"UPDATE: Cadbury Responds: “Easter Is On The Back Of The Treats”

Weasel Zippers

"PC claims another victim. Via Irish Central:"

Cadbury’s, Ireland’s leading chocolate manufacturer, is denying that the word “Easter” has been dropped from the packaging of their famous chocolate eggs this spring in an attempt to market their products in a more secular way.

A spokesperson from Cadbury’s told the Irish Independent that “Easter” was not prominently displayed on the chocolate egg packaging because they felt that “Easter” was implied by the product itself, denying that it was down to political or religious correctness.

“Most of our Easter eggs don’t say Easter or egg on the front as we don’t feel the need to tell people this – it is very obvious through the packaging that it is an Easter egg,” said the spokesperson.

Not only is “Easter” nowhere to be seen on the front of the boxes this year, but “Cadbury’s Easter Egg Trail Pack” has been replaced with “Cadbury Egg Hunt Pack” and the chocolate manufacturer’s Creme Egg product – commonly known to disappear from the shelves after Easter – shows no references to Easter in warnings of the deadline by which to scoop them up.

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Beam me up, Scotty. 

America's humiliation by Obama's Latin America trip.

To think, I had hoped if we just got Obama out of Washington that he could not damage this nation more. How could I have thought that?
If you elect the choice of Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayres, Al Sharpton and most of Hollywood, this is the kind of president you get. In fact, if Rev. Wright himself was POTUS, how could he have been more of a tool for dictators? The Tunnel Dweller.

Obama Embarrasses Nation with Visit to Cuba  "All the people that have risked their lives to come to the U.S. from Cuba were told that America is just as bad as their former country... and they were told this by President Obama no less!" Watch this video:

Obama Thinks Capitalism and Communism Are Only “Intellectual Arguments”

. . . "But as he finished I was truly horrified at what I’d heard." . . .

Brutal Video: 'The Obama Tango'

GOP senator hits Obama for trying to 'downplay' threat from ISIS

. . . "'Anything less will invite more aggression not only from Cuba, but others adversaries as well, who will see once again there’s no price to pay under President Obama for humiliating the United States,' he said."

And finally, just as we had predicted, President Ayres speaks:

Obama Apologizes to Argentina for CIA's "Early Dark Days"

. . . ""In the 1970s, Soviet communism and socialism was spreading rapidly throughout South America and the CIA created Operation Condor to help local right-wing groups such as the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance repel the Russian influence.  Politics aside, trying combat the spread of communism has never been easy and CIA agents did what was necessary to protect the United States.

"But rest assured, Obama, who swept in to save the day, gave a most sincere apology to Argentina on behalf of the "early dark days" of the CIA and the United States." . . .

"I will leave it up to you to decide who Obama was referring to when he said, "commemorate those who fought side-by-side with Argentinians for human rights.' "