The Destructive Lies of James Baldwin And Other Progressive Intellectuals | Thomas Sowell 

Ty. I pondered: if groups are treated differently, a different result seems likely. And then: If they’re treated the same… differences on the individual level present a better level of analysis. In how many ways do we customize our lives, as individuals? I have doctors examine me. I have a mechanic looking at my vehicle.

@@junior.von.claire Everyone is different. Even Under *The Law* - Look at Different culture & Country's. Everyone Struggles & Has issues. For some.. There is no Happy endings, At all. Period. (Am disabled & We aren't getting treated Equal still) - *Today* I treat people's as best I can. In whatever situations Life tends to Throw at me. However.. Not everyone are kind hearted, Let alone feels the same as Regards to these *Problems of Modern Society* > In a All too much - Digitalized Time

Black nations were coerced to "fail" by the CIA placing drugs, weapons, gangster rap, alcohol on every corner of their living area's and were "set up to fail". Misguided by many circumstances with the truth hidden from them. Black leaders were all killed off and labeled terrorists. People either don't know this or act like they don't know. Anytime a new black leader comes to teach and show black nations the truth and that they can have "much more" in life, these leaders are labeled and killed. Just look at Black Wall Street and all the other events that happened. All black organizations were eliminated and if the choose to stand together again and bring change, it is not aloud. They are soon separated and "society" much rather them "piss in the hallway" so that they can point fingers. If Black Wall Street was alive and well, we would have seen huge positive change in Black Nations due to the example that it would have set, Blacks would see something that they would want, something great and come together and end any racial stigma's that they pushed to hold. But there is an agenda thats being pushed, that has always been pushed. "They" (the ones who run the world) know that "united we stand, divided we fall" so the agenda is to keep them divided instead of uniting all people because the truth is that we are all One under God.

Our ancestral birthright land inheritance was taken by Bankers and the fraudulent U.S. government. Rockefellers intent was to keep everyone Wight working as revolving credit/debt slaves. Average Negroes could not posses a credit card until after The Vietnam War. Fiat currency...fake Society norms such as Jim Crow racial prejudice and Separation by Ritualistic Degrees.

​@@theonlinecrunch7874 this is most ludicrous statement I had ever seen and it is astonishing that people still believe in this even in nascent times. Everytime white men did this and did that. So the corrupt African leaders who subjugated, terrified and terrorized their own, looted their country's economy shouldn't be questioned but fingers should pointed at the people who washed their hands off a country? You need to be knowledgeable on this rather than make a judgement on whim.

@Anya Wale Seems to have worked on you, too.

@Anya Wale Definitely worked on you, you're panicking like crazy hahaha... This is why Sowell is great. He not only exposes utter mediocrities, but he exposes their worshippers too. Bye.

@Anya Wale Regardless of what Sowell is, James Baldwin was fundamentally nothing more than a more prolific and eloquent Al Sharpton. A pretentious race hustler, con artist, and serial complainer masquerading as an intellectual. Yet, he is beloved by the academic Left. Now why is that not surprising?

@Anya Wale Nobody has ever needed to get around you, and nobody ever will. You seem to be a child who's been allowed to use the internet unsupervised. They just ignore people like you and get on with their lives. Poorly articulated, evidence-free gibberish does not merit invested responses. Besides, you don't need to convince me. You need to convince Reality, which bears out every single word Sowell has written, on a daily basis. Reality does not seem to want to listen to you, either. It's not going to anytime soon. You can keep typing whatever garbage you want. Makes no difference to the reality of things.

What do you disagree with Sowell on?

Sorry, but there is NO OTHER Sowell. Thomas Sowell is a unique gift from God.

@@MegaMAGA33 He studied under Milton Friedman.

I’ve actually read more from Walter Williams than Thomas Sowell. I guess that’s because he had his newspaper column for all those years. You can still look up his old columns on line. And they are still relevant.

I think ww used to fill in for rush, i think if America has any hope it,d have to be the black conservative, Candace owens \ larry elder ticket

Both paid by the swamp to defend the swamp. They're ideas are not original, just copy & pasted from the swamp's playbook

Hopefully your group isn’t/won’t become too successful then.

The commenter above is confused. Hopefully your group will excel and remain morally strong and became pillars of the community and your country as a whole.

You will credit for your post. Hat tip.

The whole goal is to keep divisiveness alive

Sadly most blacks will lose another generation of growth.... Few blacks close to the suits will act as the virtue signallers

@@reginaford8575 That's the essence of Marxism.

Perhaps you aren’t that informed or intelligent .

Don't stop doing research. Think for yourself. Thomas Sowell is smart but not all his arguments are perfect. But neither are his detractors perfect.

@@OriginMSD yeah…. Most average Americans are basically locked into the matrix that is America. If they weren’t they would rebelled a long time ago. What a god awful place! It’s only good for Disney world ….

@@OriginMSD why would you think I think ANYBODY'S arguments are perfect? His just have less holes than most. More importantly, when applied to real life they have exceedingly better results than others. The first step to being intelligent is realizing how dumb you are.. then you take it from there. Thomas Sowell is acutely aware of that fact, and I admire people considered intelligent that realize this fundamental reality of life.

@@randylahey8207 what evidence do you have that Dr. Sowell’s arguments are superior to anyone else’s? What makes you think that his arguments have no holes in them? I did find a few holes, missing relavent information, etc. in this video alone.

It's tends to be both. Go back to the 1500s. Also. I don't blame whites for the bad behavior of blacks, I blame certain whites for their own bad behavior and racism and I blame certain blacks but still racism is there

Same in South America. Socialism has destroyed once a powerhouse economy in Argentina. Govt stepped in and destroyed families. Placed fear in the population. Kept everyone stupid. Look at them now. One of the poorest country's in the world. Inflation over 60%. Two currency values. Govt blames racism, and capitalism for the destruction of the country.

@@karlcarlysle3578 I don't understand your comment. Racism is there? So? It will always be there. People of different race are still very successful all over the world. Bad choices and laziness is the problem. You are playing victim to something you have no control over.

@@rogerdana7950 I remember meeting a teacher from Venezuela who was in a panic when Chavez came to power. All her fears came true.

@@kec7116 all of Latin America is a disaster. Europe and the Euro is going to fall if they don't change.

I think we did earlier on in our nation’s development. Somewhere along the way (50s,60s) we let liberal thinking pollute our ethical and moral principles. It was a slow process but sure and steady. Now here we are wondering what happened.

@@TomBTerrific True that all day long. Yahoo

Ignorance is not Bliss! MWM

I'm a moderate conservative and also trans. I give my children all the facts and let them make up their own minds, as long as they can back their arguments. We respect disagreements in our house, but we do agree on researched facts before arguing the merits and pitfalls they present to us. I hope they do better than you in social media, demonizing trans people as some sort of social indoctrination. My life is normal after transition. Without anyone telling me, I was a person twisted up and living in fear. I came out anyway, despite the dangers, because the alternative was death. Then the psychology world and, later, the WHO took it off their list of mental illnesses a handful of years later. Trans people have always been here, some braver and more visible than others. We felt that we had to hide because of society's serious bigotry problem with those who are "other." You should be more worried about why we so dramatically despise our fellow Americans with differing opinions instead of finding a convenient new scapegoat minority to trash. I fight for my right to exist by leaving my front door. I go to work and I serve the American people in a close and personal way, maintaining the utmost professionalism. If I had been accepted and raised to be a strong, independent woman who just happened to have a surgery or two, I would have been just like any other person born differently, like being deaf or blind or having a few fingers missing or a clubfoot or being intersex. Instead, I grew up in fear and feeling like I had to hide and it ate at my soul. Humans aren't perfect. I admit that I wasn't born perfect. Having a third nipple or micropenis or lazy eye or being autistic or any number of other physical oddities is considered quite normal. Being born trans or gay is too. Please think and do some research before deigning to diminish an experience of which you know nothing.

@@trappedkitty5335 Honest questions: Are you sure you present all the facts and also do not present non-facts as facts? And what does "back up their arguments" mean? How old were your kids when they had to back up their arguments?

A nation of pampered addicts

@Bantu Kingdom That will never happen.

@@slickrick8046: Certainly not in liberal colleges.

@@SouLoveReal Over 90% of the universities are economically Keynesians or Marxist leaning.

@@slickrick8046 yeah they would rather praise Karl Marx and Tupac

Colleges do everything they can to keep the mental shackles on people.

I'd just add to that, that being what most people consider "moral" /having "high morals" doesn't guarantee anything. Just that it's good to keep that in mind. While overall, for the culture or society at large, it definitely helps a lot, even people who value and follow through on it, can still experience their sinful, lost, dark, blindness have negative effect on their life or that of those in their lives. Whether - at best - in mental assent to God's word and the gospel which falls short of true heart/will surrender and new birth in the life of a person who is quite decent and well behaved and not lacking love, to the worst - those who ooze evil &/or pride and selfishness in all sorts of ways, while technically seeming to not exactly break the criminal or cultural laws in any major way. Again, I DO think it's better overall for many people, the more we have wholesome decency as a standard, especially the kids, BUT many, many people are easily deceived when living in a wholesome family in a wholesome neighborhood and experiences, into misleading, mistaken impressions about their status, their need, our world and this life. For everyone's eternal sake, I just pray we all do our best to prayerfully be careful to keep that in mind, and seek how God would have us think, speak and act, in light of that. I'm no expert, just have lived, learned and observed enough to have this conviction.

Moral desert also fits.

well the marxist/Left has taken God out of the equation.and that's the first step to moral decay

@@ajb.822 Having high morals pretty much guarantees you won't stoop below a certain level regardless of what else you accomplish, & that's enough for a lot of us.

America has decayed to moral squalor? It's FAR too left wing and despicably PC, but at least has free speech and the right to self defense. What other countries have that? That would mean all countries are in moral squalor.

LL. I read a baldwin short story decades ago, cant remember the title but baldwin was a great writer if that one story was any indication, but his leftism was typical hogwash.

@@shivasirons6159 I agree that Baldwin was a great writer. I hope you enjoyed that short story, but many good writers are leftists. Comes with the territory. ☺

Who cares man just enjoy the dang story

ya simple as that

Hello, was that due to racism or personal choices?

The point that Dr. Sowell was making was that he didn't experience this bad behavior growing up in Harlem in the 40's and 50's either, but it started showing up in the 60's and later when progressive ideology was put more into practice.

@@ST8URCASE personal racism🙋🏽‍♂️

LMAOOOOO

Two things can be true at once it’s not always one or the other

The average american has just been completely dumbed down & brainwashed for decades..

Tom, Jesse Jackson could have been a real leader like MLK, but he turned out to be just another politician and a bad one at that!

Brilliant !

James Baldwin eventually repatriated to the nation of France!

Well Thomas Sowell meets that criteria

@@TheFischer72 you beat me to it, Glenn!!

@@fletchkeilman2205 Boom, for you.

@@TheFischer72 Boom, for you.

@@TheFischer72 Thomas Sowell recognizes that he too is an “intellectual” and is not smarter than the common man in the free market. So you’re wrong.

Fabian. Socialist. Maybe more...

@@gerrystevens1694 Baldwin’s major impact is he was intersectional before the term “intersectionality” was coined.

It's called demoralization.

@Chip Belori Drugs were a big part of it. You combine that and the lack of employment opportunities and you’ve got a neighborhood that’s going to rot and smolder. Can’t get a good job, there’s easy money to be made slinging dope, which in turn creates degeneracy among the populace. Gotta ask yourself: how did so much come into these already modest, even poor neighborhoods? It’s not like there were dudes in the neighborhood that frequented Colombia or SE Asia for the business opportunities of selling drugs. Also ask why the crack epidemic was treated by the media as a criminal problem and the opioid epidemic was regarded as a public health crisis…

That above should have been "misunderstanding".

schizoidboy, in economics this is called tragedy of the commons, it just means anything funded publicly ends up being vandalized or abused in some way, it’s why bus stops get defaced, because you don’t pay for it directly the way you do your shoes or clothes or car.

Look up info on any major cities projects/government provided housing and you will see exactly what is described by Sowell. It is hard to believe but definitely still happening.

It’s unfortunate that Baldwin was just a communist agitator which in todays vernacular is community organizer. He was making a living off of victimhood while Sharpton was still in high school. Good idea to let those ideas collect dust. You’ve got plenty of Sowellsbooks to choose from for facts instead of rhetoric and blame games.

Sell them to someone you don't like. Post-Nihilist Atheist: _If there is a reason for intelligence and imagination it _*_might just be_*_ that the Cosmos is trying to make sense of itself._ Cutely anthropomorphic.

@mr oko We could have a 'moustache off; to settle the dispute - I'd win BTW, I grown a monster that has its own hairdresser plus assistant.

Thomas Sowell is embarrassing. This isn't some neutral historical fact meant to make to educated. It's a specific narrative to contradict another. That is the actual history of the US government policy at the time, ie redlining and subsidized housing with the requirement none be sold to African-Americans. Let me know when Sowell teaches you about the actual things Baldwin was criticizing instead of taking a simple strawman to disagree with the man's ideology. The fact that you would throw away his books by the way is one of the lost hypocritical things you can do by the way. If that's the type of behavior you think Sowell and his supporters like to see then I would drop the act of thinking of yourselves as level-headed, neutral or unbiased. I'll say one more thing on behalf of Mr. Baldwin, he didn't resent people that acted "barbarous" as Mr. Sowell seems to. What naturally follows from thinking about selfhood, is that it deals directly with how you think about your relationship with others. It's called showing a little sympathy for your fellow man.

Give them to me

The antidote to intellectualism is as it always has been - common sense. Paraphrasing Schopenhauer.

Don't let anyone oversimplify your mind. If everything is horrific & no one cared at all, would beat u, would u complain? Fast forward 150 years & you're a person... but circumstances tell u you're an inferior person. People start talking about it. But there's little open backlash against that talk, either because some people feel way too powerful or not threatened by it to even bother, or because the argument is so new that anybody who would agree with it at all hasn't heard enough of it to push back against it. Or because anybody not rich, or poor enough to be affected by it, is too busy putting food on the table. You couldn't pay an extra $1.50 a month to download as many videos as you wanted to a computer in your pocket in the 1960s, that you could listen to all day if you wanted. That's about how much the $12 that RU-vid charges for that now. Had to go hear these talks were they were being given, you had to be invited. You want to know what books to read, read the New York Times. Maybe without any kind of sympathetic ideology, crack and redlining wouldn't have been enough to cause all these problems. But even Malcolm X actually said that desegregation actually hurt the black community, bc before then they kept many more of their own dollars

The clickbait title got me to watch, the content have me feeling a little misled. Hesitant to watch more

Thank you for the suggestions. The video was strictly supposed to be about James Baldwin, which is why his name had to be included in the title. The other intellectuals simply shared the same vision, which is why they got included. We didn't know any other better way to put it. We often call people by their names, so you have Chomsky, Richard Wolff and others mentioned in our videos, which is why this channel is considered extremely controversial. Your comment is greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

@@blacksteve22 Sorry you felt that way. It wasn't meant to be a click bait.

Epic Response. This channel is refreshing in a sea of incivility (especially online). If things are really stressful... I look to Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson & Norm MacDonald (RIP) to revive my faith in humanity. Thank you for your contribution to the world & I suspect many will study this work for years to come.

I grew up in NYC government housing for many years and the housing project that I grew up in was predominantly white.. with some puerto rican families moving in. My parents were immigrants from Italy & Romania.. they used to tell me as a teenager the " city projects" ruined the neighborhood. even though they replaced the crumbling tenements which my parents lived in before the city put them up in the mid-1950s.. they said it did something to people's minds.. I could never understand it until I got older because I was able to see the corrupt politicians brainwash the folks that lived there.. by the mid to late 60s the mindset was already changing among the folks that lived there.. even I could see it as a teenager.. the corrupt liberal, Left politicians in NYC did not want hard working folks living there they wanted folks to be dependent on the city for everything.. which is what happened.. they encouraged folks daily to be dependent on the government for handouts. i watched the city implement all of these programs ..

Bullshit. Please study Dr. Sowell more carefully.

Whoa there! You are combining like four to six decades of events into like one decade in a big generalized summary of the decline of inner city downtown urban centers and the decline of American manufacturing, which the decline of American manufacturing is actually complicated and has been debunked. The decline of American manufacturing is actually happening now. What you are describing is the rise of the Midwest 'Rust Belt', which played out like a domino effect and was caused by bad Federal economic policy and perhaps corrupt politicians including some of the worst US Presidents in American history. Also Thomas Sowell is correct about the Detroit race riots, which caused the collapse of the industrial heartland of America, thus creating the Rust Belt and impoverishing many Midwestern Americans, not just blacks. Your interpretation that only blacks suffered from the fall of Detroit and the collapse of many factory towns across the Midwest is not accurate. The Midwest is still to this day regarded as economically depressed in several areas due to the collapse of the economy of so many communities. Redlining in Detroit, Pontiac, other cities in Michigan, and other cities in the US during the 1940's-1960's was done by the Federal Government that literally pushed on communities the same way the LBJ's Great Society program pushed urban development and the creation of the housing projects or current President Biden is pushing equity and the Green New Deal. Redlining was advertised by the government to be positive for communities, which history later showed was actually impoverishing minority Americans. Apartheid ended in 1964. The persecution and racism did not end in 1964. The Detroit race riots happened in 1967 and the violence and crime only kept increasing and the racial violence is still happening to this day. That racial violence is happening in cities across America and has been spreading to new places since the 2020 race riots. Detroit is a great example that the Federal Government is repeating history right now. Crime is up in New York City and Chicago and Los Angeles, which did not collapse and loose most of their population like Detroit did, but if things get bad enough, they could depopulate just like Detroit. In 1967, when Detroit was lit up like a birthday cake, the Canadians in Windsor in Canada across the Detroit River were lining up watching the fires. The Canadians were confused and scared because they were trying to figure out why an American city was burning.

@@goatface6602 not an argument my good friend

"Why Should White guys have ALL the Fun?" Black Billionaire Reginald Lewis cracked the takeover game. Read it and find out what happened next. Then send a copy to Tom.

Were these destructions by the American government?

You ask a Rhetorical question. Do research!

@@edwardhindseh i don’t have “issues” living with American history. I was simply trying to have a conversation with a black man. I can care less about my question if you want to be a dik about it

Why is the "Dr." a Pariah ,explainPlease??

@Cannab-al That New Deal crap was for white folks so your history is way off.

To be honest , anywhere looks better than Mariupol ( Ukraine) now.

@@slickrick8046 🤦

Public housing was started to serve Ialian and Irish immigrants

@@cameo1013 Yea, white folks.