Via Sister Anne
2014-15 Hillsdale College Women's Basketball Roster
Thomas Sowell once
said that some books you write for pleasure, and others you write out
of a sense of duty, because there are things to be said—and other people
have better sense than to say them. My new book,
Please Stop Helping Us,
falls into that latter category. When I started out as a journalist 20
years ago, I had no expectation of focusing on race-related topics.
People like Sowell and Shelby Steele and Walter Williams and a few other
independent black thinkers, to my mind at least, had already said what
needed to be said, had been saying it for decades, and had been saying
it more eloquently than I ever could.
But over the years, and with some
prodding from those guys, it occurred to me that not enough younger
blacks were following in their footsteps. It also occurred to me that
many public policies aimed at the black underclass were just as
wrongheaded as ever. The fight wasn’t over. A new generation of black
thinkers needed to explain what’s working and what isn’t, and why, to a
new generation of readers. And the result is this book, which I hope
will help to bring more light than heat to the discussion of race.
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