Update: Gene Owens’ column is italicized this morning. I tmust be a new feature. I’m not picking, it’s just interesting.
The high cost of racial hype
While we’re on the subject, anyone else wonder why the N&R would italicize the headline to Thomas Sowell’s column? It really jumped off today’s editorial page, as if they really want you to read Sowell’s views on identity politics:
Part of the problem is the “multicultural” ideology that says all cultures are equally valid. It is hard even to know what that means, much less take it seriously as a guide to living in the real world.
Will time and energy spent on rap music and wearing low-riding baggy pants like guys in prison— as badges of identity— provide as good a future for young people as learning math, computers and the English language?
Romantic self-indulgence and self-deception are things that some people can afford when they reach the point where they can afford identity angst. But millions of other people will remain mired in poverty if they believe such notions.
Maybe they thought Sowell was making an important point.
