Because so many blacks, too many blacks, have no fathers and thus have fewer role models than other groups. So many blacks, too many blacks, lack the cultural capital that compels teams of individuals to, as a matter of ethnic identity, build upon financial goals across several generations. Because, relatively speaking, so many blacks commit crime and lack discipline. Because so many blacks, too many blacks, seem to view academic excellence as a "white thing," brutally ridiculing blacks who academically excel such that those blacks typical fall back into mediocrity.
Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell put black skin on excellence. Sowell, particularly, is unfriggin' real. No dang body, black or white, thinks more powerfully than this guy. Colin Powell and Condie Rice have high profiles, and they also put black skin on excellence. Millions of black kids, many for the very first time, are going to see over the next four years a black guy and a black gal, consistently doing great things, this, without a friggin' ball in their hands. Where black fathers have too often failed to show this sort of consistency, Sowell, Williams and Powell show it every day. They are role models, badly needed.
The implicit message? "Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are inferior men, and think you are inferior too. They actually defend thugs. Don't follow them. Follow us." |
