“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. People with careers as ethnic leaders usually tell their followers what they want to hear.” – Thomas Sowell
I thought of this quote watching Democrats pandering to minority groups as they run for President. It seems the campaign is based on who can promise the most to certain ethnic groups — reparations, unlimited entrance to this country, immunity from prosecution based on race and sexual orientation. Promise sufficient goodies to enough different minorities and you have just over the 50 percent you need to get elected.
Neglected in this is the consequences of those decisions or that you are “relieving” injustice by creating other injustice. Law-abiding members of minority communities are hurt by privileges granted to law-breakers in their community. Those who are punished for “crimes” committed by ancestors long-dead (or ancestors of other people as theirs were somewhere else) are empowered to strike out at those “helped” by policies alleged to “redress” indignities from centuries earlier. Respect for the law is diminished — which rips the fabric of society.
Perhaps it is unsurprising that a few minorities are beginning to ignore the blandishments offered by grievance-mongers. Asians are beginning to sue colleges discriminating against them in favor of other preferred minorities. Donald Trump’s approval is now 51 percent among Hispanics, the group ostensibly “benefiting” from open borders. Even some blacks are beginning to realize the color of a President’s skin may not be the deciding factor as to whether more — and better paying — jobs are available to them.
Or, indeed that it was a black man who wrote these words above.
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