Not Sowell and the "glad" statement was his direct thought
in the book and when I saw him on C-SPAN.


"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
. ..
| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:tcqgg.26072$ZW3.9062@dukeread04...
| I can't think of his name right now, but there is a
black
| reporter for the Wall Street Journal who wrote a book
about
| how glad his ancestors were slaves in America, so he
doesn't
| have to live in Africa.
|
| You are presumably thinking of Thomas Sowell, a columnist
(not reporter) for
| the Wall Street Journal who has argued against
reparations.
|
| But while Sowell does mention that (of course) he is
better off in America
| than in Africa, he certainly does *not* express gratitude
about his
| ancestors' captivity; on the contrary, he condemns that
atrocity in the
| strongest terms.
|
| The idea that even the most conservative black scholar
could be "glad" his
| ancestors were enslaved is purely a product of your own
twisted, racist,
| slavery-rationalizing imagination.
|
| --Gary
|
|