Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Again, Thomas Sowell provides the reader with more than they paid for. Unlike most books about economics or political issues, Sowell thoroughly stuffs each page. Best to read this once or twice or thrice.

There is so much I want to write to entice you to read this book. There’s more than reading this book. For those lost in the Anointed Intelligentsia, this book will come across as entirely foreign territory. The Anointed Minions will scream this is all wrong and Sowell is making it all up and they know better! They need to calm down and really read his words. Check his footnotes. This is reality. Not the junk tossed out by the Anointed Intelligentsia.

If all read this book and learned what really has happened in the world, as I’ve read or experienced in bits and pieces before, the idea that racism is a problem would evaporate and we all can move forward to great success. THAT should be what we all do.

This book is somewhat a cut out of his ‘Intellects and Society’ and then expanded and enhanced.
In many ways this is a better book in it’s focus. ‘Society’ was too sprawling. That should have been 10 or more books, instead of so much in one place.

This is also stuffed, but is consistent in it’s title and the data is immense.
Could parts be better written. Could some loose ends be connected? yes. But the whole is so much greater than that.

Bottom line: i recommend this book. 10 out of 10 points.

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