The political left is much more interested in black suffering than black accomplishment, writes @jasonrileywsj wsj.com/articles/liber… via @WSJOpinion
"The political left is much more interested in black suffering than in black accomplishment, but black history is about more than victimization at the hands of whites. It’s also about what blacks have achieved notwithstanding that victimization.”
“And in the first half of the 20th century, long before an expanded welfare state supposedly came to the rescue, blacks accomplished quite a lot. Incomes rose, poverty fell dramatically, and education gaps narrowed.”
“Blacks entered the skilled professions—medicine, law, accounting, engineering, social work—at faster rates in the years preceding the 1960s civil-rights legislation than they did in the years afterward.”
“Among racial and ethnic groups rising from similar circumstances, historians have described the rapidity of these gains as unprecedented."
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