Dr. Sowell Explores Unequal Justice In Schools

One of our great challenges as a constitutional republic is in the consistent interpretation of the laws we live under. Our Rights are guaranteed by divine gift, but even those we mistakenly attribute to our lawmakers and then seek to make them fit into supporting roles for our contemporary crusades in ways while often also seeking to deny them to others by the force of authority. We people sure are a messed up bunch.

Doctor Sowell exposes the transitional nature of society's protected classes on school campuses.

To put it bluntly, it was a question of whose ox was gored. That is, what groups were in vogue at the moment among the intelligentsia. Blacks clearly were not.

The current media and political crusade against “bullying” in schools seems likewise to be based on what groups are in vogue. For years, there have been local newspaper stories about black kids in schools in New York and Philadelphia beating up Asian classmates, some beaten so badly as to require medical treatment.

But the national media hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. Asian-Americans are not in vogue today, just as blacks were not in the 1920s.

What we learn at school we carry to society at large. I wait with little hope that I will live long enough to see a time when we practice equality.





The following is a response I left to a comment. Lector wanted to prove that Dr. Sowell was mistaken.

Lector, the four personalities you cite are not students on a campus, therefore the "campus thought police" have no jurisdiction over them.

That said, each has certainly faced hostile reaction to their speech. Take Mr. Limbaugh, for example, he was fired from ESPN for saying that the media wanted Donovan McNabb to succeed. Which they did. They wanted him to succeed as proof that a black man could play Quarterback in the NFL. And, simply for saying that truth out loud he was ostracized. Former U of L linebacker and then fellow ESPN employee Tom Jackson attempted to point out the benign nature of Mr. Limbaugh's remark and was met with threats of violence against his family for saying the fair and truthful. He had to back off from what he knew to be a truthful statement by Rush in order to protect his family. Limbaugh's remarks have never been properly defended since, and were even used to prevent him from being an owner of an NFL team. So, don't try to use him as an example of someone who has not been punished. He was punished unjustly and we are all expected to forget what was done to him because he is not among a protected class.

Equal protection under the law, or in society is a myth! As, those who were once unprotected mostly seek revenge with their new found place within the protected. And the hypocrisy does not bother them.