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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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Examines the historical and cultural factors influencing social and economic disparities among different racial and ethnic groups.

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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

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The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

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It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them.

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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

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Intellect is not wisdom.

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No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

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Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

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