The greatest detriment to Black communities was not slavery, but the welfare policies of the Left.
The eminent liberal economist Thomas Sowell delivers a factual broadside against the Marxist apologia that attributes all societal failures to 'systemic discrimination.'
1. The Triumph of a Tragic Worldview
Sowell dismantled the utopian illusion of achievable perfect equality. The root of poverty lies not in societal oppression, but in the absence of individual capital accumulation and a deficit of personal responsibility. The instant discrimination is invoked as a pretext for incompetence, the very will for self-reliance is irrevocably fractured.