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

Human memory distorts recollections in the direction of our expectations. So
if you harbor the disgusting expectation that African Americans are (or
should be) "glad" their ancestors were enslaved, then your memory of what
you think you read will be influenced in that direction.

If the book passage you believe you read (and cited approvingly) were really
to exist, then you or someone else here would be able to find it. It would
be such an outrageous sentiment that a Google search would easily uncover
copious discussion of it.

--Gary

"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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| "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
|
|