Robert Wright of AIER here reviews Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America.
In it, authors Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher argue that blacks don’t need government favors and handouts, but instead freedom. Sounds like the philosophy of Frederick Douglass, not that of, oh, Ibram X. Kendi.
Here’s a slice:
The authors explain, for example, that purveyors of anti-racism want to concentrate on the gaps between whites and blacks, rather than improving absolute outcomes. So the anti-racists decry legal changes, like marijuana decriminalization, that would reduce the number of incarcerated black men if those reforms also reduced the number of incarcerated white men. Similarly, the anti-racists, many of whom have an affection for Marxism, would prefer it if everyone earned the same low real wage instead of everyone enjoying different degrees of affluence. By focusing on relative differences between groups instead of individual outcomes, the so-called anti-racists seem to want to hurt whites more than they want to help blacks.
Read the whole thing.