I don’t have a ton to say about this book, except to reassert just how much I admire Thomas Sowell. No one does a better job of puncturing the pretensions of those who believe economic realities are a matter of opinion. There are many who are peddle nonsensical nostrums in the name of what we would all recognize as justice. But the name and the reality almost never line up. The subtitle says it all — rhetoric or reality? You just need to get this and read.
Anyone who says he is committed to racial reconciliation, but who has not read Sowell on the subject, is simply kidding himself.
This is one of his older books, and so some of the stats are dated. But even this can still be helpful, in that the errors the stats reveal are errors that are still out and about, engaging in mayhem still. Whether it is affirmative action, rent control, or minimum wage, nobody can hold such posturing up to the light of cold facts the way Sowell does.