Sowell on Nutter

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/08/sowell-on-nutter

Columnist Thomas Sowell praises the black, Democratic, mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter:

"Pull up your pants and buy a belt 'cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt," he said. "If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy," the mayor said. He added: "You have damaged your own race."

While this might seem like it is just plain common sense, what Mayor Nutter said undermines a whole vision of the world that has brought fame, fortune and power to race hustlers in politics, the media and academia. Any racial disparities in hiring can only be due to racism and discrimination, according to the prevailing vision, which reaches from street corner demagogues to the august chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Yet another reason the Wall Street Journal may have been overstating it when it said "the economy has eclipsed culture as the main voter concern." The two things — economy and culture — aren't entirely unrelated.

by Ira Stoll  |  Aug 16, 2011 at 10:37 am receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list