On Race

Thomas Sowell

In Tampa last night, four young black men assaulted a young, white, off-duty soldier in a quiet neighborhood. Tampa Bay's Channel 10 News has video.  After you've watched this video, read Thomas Sowell's article.

Mr. Thomas Sowell, one of my esteemed counselors (see right-side column of this blog), has written a must read article about race in National Review Online.  Interestingly, Mr. Sowell's piece was not prompted by last night's violence in Tampa but by his own observations of a nationwide trend. It calls attention not just to recent acts of black violence, but looks back on a trend several years in the making.

Years, not hours, not weeks.

So none of what Thomas Sowell wrote about could be attributable to the ongoing flap over the Trayvon Martin case (for a sample on that, see The Mob in Mobile, by Quin Hillyer, at the American Spectator, and The New Black Panthers' Unpunished Threats, by John Fund, at National Review Online).

All this is but another facet of the problem Naomi Shaefer Riley wrote about.

There is a racial problem in this country.  And it seems to be getting worse.