If you believe slavery
and white privilege are the underlying causes of our racial problems in
America, this SDG will give you a different perspective to consider. If you do not believe this, this SDG will
give you ammunition to support your views.
The core book is by
Thomas Sowell, a highly esteemed, economist and Hoover Institution Fellow. He is also black, 90 years old, and has seen
it all. He provides research and facts
to support his contention that discrimination is not the cause of racial
disparities.
The SDG will supplement
the core book with articles and book excerpts from writers such as Victor Davis Hansen
and Walter E. Williams. (Hanson is a white classicist and historian. Williams
is a black conservative economist, and Sowell dedicates our core book to him.)
Core Book; use of additional articles, TBD. Weeks and Chapters match.
Chapter 1 Disparities and Prerequisites 1(Starrting page number)
Chapter 2 Discrimination; Meanings and Costs 29
Chapter 3 Sorting and Unsorting People 58
Chapter 4 The World of Numbers 87
Chapter 5 The World of Words 115
Chapter 6 Social Visions and Human Consequences 150
Chapter 7 Facts, Assumptions and Goals 186
Core Book:
Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell, originally published March, 2018, revised and enlarged March, 2019
Summary:
Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and
nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe
that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics. Others believe
that those who are less fortunate are victims of the more fortunate.
Discrimination and Disparities gathers
a wide array of empirical evidence to challenge the idea that different
economic outcomes can be explained by any one factor, be it discrimination,
exploitation, or genetics.
This
revised and enlarged edition also analyzes the human consequences of the
prevailing social vision of these disparities and the policies based on that
vision—from educational disasters to widespread crime and violence.
Sample
Articles (to be expanded if proposal moves forward):
FTA: “The
absence of a father in the home predisposes children, especially boys, to
academic failure, criminal behavior, and economic hardship, not to mention an
intergenerational repeating of handicaps. If today's weak family structure is a
legacy of slavery, then the people who make such a claim must tell us how it
has managed to skip nearly five generations to have an effect.”
https://amgreatness.com/2020/06/14/class-not-race-divides-america/
Class Not Race Divides America by Victor Davis Hanson, June 14, 2020