by Thomas Sowell
Even such a British patriot as Winston Churchill said, "We owe London to
Rome" — an acknowledgement that Roman conquerors created Britain's most famous
city, at a time when the ancient Britons were incapable of doing so
themselves.
No one who saw the illiterate and backward tribal Britons of that era was
likely to imagine that someday the British would create an empire vastly larger
than the Roman Empire — one encompassing one fourth of the land area of the
earth and one fourth of the human beings on the planet.
History has many dramatic examples of the rise and fall of peoples and
nations, for a wide range of known and unknown reasons. What history does not
have is what is so often assumed as a norm today, equality of group achievements
at a given point in time. [....]
Yet today we have bean counters in Washington turning out statistics that are
solemnly presented in courts of law to claim that, if the numbers are not more
or less the same for everybody, that proves that somebody did somebody else
wrong.
Read the full article here: Intellectuals and Race (Part 2)
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