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  4. Cornelia Dowd

    Thomas Sowell is so enlightening. I love to listen to him speak also.
    Very disappointed to hear that new little bit of anti-Irish prejudice that Michael suggested and that the other speaker reiterated. “No Irish need apply” signs were all over Boston when my father arrived in 1925. It was NOT because Irish people couldn’t get along with others ????! Where did that come from???? Never heard that supposed reasoning before. The signs and attitude behind them were the result of prejudice – not so pure but pretty simple. Thank God the Irish that came here got along very well with others and believed in education very much and became very successful as my family did.

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  9. Maambo Mumba

    Thomas Sowell is one of the few scholars courageous enough to discuss Culture in the first place. Many commentators are weary of a discussion on culture for the debunking truths it will reveal. Thanks TS.

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  14. AP

    💡💡🌱YOU BOTH are hypocrites. You’ve contradicted your comments throughout the video and justified it throughout by saying “you can’t blame the employee for not hiring the Irish because the employer doesn’t want to incur the cost of having to ‘find the good ones’ to hire” THAT IS STRAIGHT UP RACIST. To then say, “if this country was so racist or so bad, why do so many immigrants come” implying that this country is not racist.. To answer the question, some come to this country because their country may be even worse or have harder circumstances, etc etc.. To say that “it’s not race.. you have the ultimate choice” is the example definition of ignorance. There was an incident on Jan 6th that many call an attempted coup at the Capitol, where the criminals or terrorists, were treated in kind. In contrast, there are innocent and peaceful protesters who are exercising or trying to exercise their first amendment rights in order to better the civil rights of the masses, but the innocent protesters are treated as war criminals, regardless of rights and laws. Ultimately their choice? There are many examples that show too many of both your points makes no sense and are clearly INTENDED to skew perception of what’s soundly right. You even stated that some of the things that you focus on and do well is stating the language that you want people to use or change view with. It’s called propaganda tactics. You’re saying MANY egregious things and trying to pass it off as sophisticated, altered or individual thinking.. and it’s not. It’s actually VERY far from and out of tune with reality. Harlem is very different as it’s safe now? What Harlem are you referring to? Not Harlem NY right? So many ridiculous, ignorant states that spewed with use of book props and glossed sophistication. Stop insulting the people. People aren’t as clay impressionable as you would like to think. Disgusting is a good description of the attempt in the video. Smh.

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  16. L0VEisAmixtape

    I'm black and I grew up my whooole life being shamed by my fellow black (and white liberal) peers for having more conservative views on race relations that align more with what you all shared in this video. It is so refreshing to hear these views being shared openly. Now I know I wasn't crazy, i was just a conservative 🤣 thank you for doing the bold work of risking being cancelled by the woke mob. It shouldn't be as scary or risky as it is, because it is truthful and there is nothing wrong with encouraging black people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work versus playing the blame game and perpetuating victimhood mentality. I have seen firsthand how harmful the victim mentality can be and how it harms the person who buys into it the most, and then they wonder later on in life why they aren't successful. I think it is interesting that the privilege/victimhood narrative totally ignores and minimizes and distracts from the importance hard work as a principle. The reason this narrative won't prevail is because when we state that white people can only attribute their successes to privilege, we discount their hard work and are saying that they lacked control and influence over their circumstances, and were totally controlled by external factors <<and the work they did to be successful is insignificant.>>

    Then when we tell black people that they are also controlled entirely by external forces, the systems that oppress them, we are telling them that << the work they do to try to be successful is insignificant>> and they will always be in this position of disadvantage because of their race, no matter how high they climb or how successful they become.

    This narrative is reinforcing stereotypes, brainwashing us to stop taking responsibility for our lives, and act like teenagers who blame all our problems on the world around us rather than on ourselves.

    Since discovering PragerU, The Daily Wire, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Thomas Sowell's teachings the past 2 weeks, I have made a commitment as a black person to apply the following teachings to my life:

    -Stop blaming systems or others for my failures.
    -I am responsible for 100% of my successes and 100% of my failures.
    -I am not a victim, I am a victor.
    -Anyone that wants to convince me of my inferiority, victimhood, or incompetence due to my race is not a friend nor an ally; they have a political agenda to reinforce stereotypes for their own gain or political interests.
    -No one is allowed to tell me how to think or choose or vote. My race does not determine my vote nor my political party. Race and gender matters do NOT have to be at the top of my list of priorities as a voter or a human being, and I won't allow anyone to pressure me into thinking that it does.
    -Just because someone voted for Trump does NOT make them a hateful bigot. It is so much more nuanced than that.

    I have learned so much more, but those are the top things 🙂

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  21. Afifah Hamilton

    Changing the culture of others is a double edged sword. Please watch the film 'Schooling The World' made in 2010. In this we see how in one generation the culture of Ladakh in northern India, has been all but destroyed, through the campaign of modern European liberals who took it upon themselves to 'educate the simpletons' and send virtually ALL the children to boarding schools in Indian cities. When they go back to Ladakh they cannot speak the language, see their parents and grandparents as idiots, doing bizarre things, they are totally cut off from their roots and families. The great anthropologist Wade Davis features in the film and it is an excellent example of just how racist, arrogant, ignorant, and deluded are the liberal do-gooders of the west generally. Here is the IMDb listing of this shortish documentary film, which I highly recommend. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1717207/

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  25. Will Smith

    W.E.B. Du Bois | 1899 | The Philadelphia Negro

    "Probably a change in public opinion on this point to-morrow <end of racial prejudice> would not make very much difference in the positions occupied by Negroes in the city: some few would be promoted, some few would get new places–the mass would remain as they are; but it would make one vast difference: it would inspire the young to try harder, it would stimulate the idle and discouraged and it would take away from this race the omnipresent excuse for failure: prejudice."

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  26. leeuniverse

    Yep… "Ideology" and "beliefs" are what makes or breaks a people, be it race, culture, country, or otherwise.
    Some places of the world are very poor, much poorer than the U.S.'s poor for example, yet their "Values" are much different, and they are happy, they are good people, generally "religious" people, etc. So, in the U.S. for example, black problems aren't due to "racism", they are entirely due to being DEMOCRATS. That ideology is utterly EVIL and destructive, because it's a "Leftist" ideology, and that ideology has done nothing but harm people in the world. While Right-Wing ideology has entirely LIFTED people in the world. For example, when blacks in the U.S. were on the Right, they were actually starting to prosper, they had nothing close to the problems they have today as they've been Democrats and subject to Democrat Rule.

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  27. john doe

    I like her but you can tell she is SO corporately trained, speech pattern, body language general presentation screams corporate, itll never be hard for her to get a job

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  31. Doc Murchadha

    Thomas Sowell is insanely underappreciated in his time….100 years from now they will put up statues of him. He will be revered as one of the greatest American thought leaders to have ever existed.

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