"I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white;" Thomas Sowell begins in this poignant essay amid the protests across the nation this evening. Apparently other Americans also recognize that
the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 31 percent of blacks think that most blacks are racists, while 24 percent of blacks think that most whites are racist. The time is long overdue to
stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have
too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
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