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Help' often harmful to blacks in America
i ■% ack in I ho heyday ol
the British I-m pi re.
M-J a man from one
of the colonies addressed .1
I ondon audience
"Please do not do ;in\
more good in im countrx
he said "We ha\e suffered
too imielt ul rends from
all the good that yon ha\e
dtate "
I hat is essentialK the mes
saite of an outstanding new
hook b\ Jason Rile\ about
blaeks in America. Its title is
"Please Stop Ilelping l!s."
Its theme is that mans poll
v ies designed to help blaeks
are in faet harmful, some
tunes dexastatingly so I liese
counterproductive poheies
1 mice In>m minimum wape
laws to "all 1 minuse aelion"
i|tn 'las
I ho book untangles the
eontio\ ersies. the eonlu
'ions, and the irresponsible
rhetorie in w hieli issues in
s ols me nnmmum w age law s
are Ustialh disenssed As
someone w ho has followed
'iiinmniin wace eontroxei
sies h>1 lies.Hies. I must sa\
: i;ai I lias e lies er seen the
Milnei1 1'\plan ed mom , ic.n
s o; 11101 e nnii nn mglx
Bla. k teen.me unemphw
■■■■ ■ ■ • ■ ■■'■ - 1; 1; m;' ! 1 0111___
.'1! n ' so paui-m lias e been
- s. 11 ' ' :..i’ mans peopie
.ne niiau.i'i 1l1.1i this u.is
.0! ! 1 ue be I ore there w ere
a nmmin w.me laws. m even
, 11 a imu \inn s w lien 1 ntlatit'll
enilered miiiiiiium w.me
:a-1 s i> eltei 10 e. as in the
Tne Raging Moderate
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THOMAS SOVVKI.L
late mbs.
Pricing young people out
of work deprives them not
onls ol ineoine but also ol
work experience, which can
be c\cn more valuable. Pric-
1111! \otitic people out ol legal
work, when illegal work is
ai w a\ s as ailable. is just ask -
me for trouble. So is has ing
I a rite numbers ol ielle voting
males hanging out together
on the streets.
\\ lien it comes to aflirma
live action. Jason Riles asks
the key question: "Do racial
preferences work .’ \V hat is
the track record'.’" I ike mans
other well-meaning and nice-
sounding policies. allirma-
II \ e action eannot stirs ise
tactual sertitins.
Some nulls idtials mas pet
|obs thes ssonlil not pet olh
erss tse but mans black stu-
dents who are quite capable
ol eel 1 me a stood college ed .
nealion are adnntied. under
racial quotas, to institutions
whose pace alone is enough
ii> make it unlikely that thes
ss ill graduate.
Studies that slims lioss
mans artilicial failures are
11 eated bs atlirmatise ac-
1 ion admissions policies are
summarized in "Please Stop
Helping Us." in language
much easier to understand
than in the original studies.
There are main ponderous
academic studies of blaeks.
if sou base a less months in
which to read them, but there
is nothing to match Jason
Riles "s book as a primer that
ss ill quickly bring you tip
to speed on the complicated
subject of race in a sveek. or
perhaps user a weekend.
As an experienced journal-
ist. rather than an academic.
Riles knows lioss to use
plain Pnglish to get to the
point.
He also has the integrity
to give it to you straight,
instead of in the jargon anil
euphemisms too often found
in discussions of race. The
result is a book that provides
more knowledge and insight
m a couple of hundred pages
than are usually found in
books twice that length.
I hilike academies ss ho just
tell facts. Riles knows which
tacts tire telling.
l or example, in response
to claims (hat blacks don't do
well academically because
the schools use an approach
geared to white students.
Tie points out that blaeks
from foreign, non Pnglish-
speaking countries do belter
in American schools than
black. Pnglish-spcaking
American students.
Asian students do better
than ssliiles in schools sup-
posedly geared to whites.
In New York Cits's three
academically elite public
high schools Stuvsesant.
Bronx Science and Brooklyn
lech - there are more than
twice as mans Asian students
as white students in all three
institutions.
So much for the theory
that non-whites can t do well
m schools supposedly geared
to ss liites.
On issue after issue.
"Please Slop Helping Us"
cites facts to destroy propa-
ganda and puncture inflated
rhetoric It is impossible to
do justice to the w ide range
of racial issues from
crime to family disintegra-
tion explored in this book.
Pick up a cops and open
pages at random to see how
the author annihilates non-
sense.
His brief comments pack
a lot of punch, for example,
"has mg a black man in the
Os til Office is less impor-
tiinl than has mg one in the
home."
Thomas Sowell is a senior
fellow at the Hoover Institu
lion, Stanford I iiiversitv.
Stanford. CA ‘Hells. Ills
website is www.tsowell.
com. Tn find nrtr mnrr about
Thomas Sowell iwd rend
features by oilier ( realors
Syndicate columnists niul
cartoonists, visit the ( re-
ators Syndicate H eh pa ye at
www.ereators .com.
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UORS.CO.U
It's now dead, solid summer
- hopuie \i'tir
.'ix'iuleike I >a\
bo• 'iid tcrrilH
oil1 the I''iid
\ net van ol
1 J
■’MV!
:s /si.in A Inch nuns
1 i. 11111 are two enure
1 \ 1! 11tcreu! i > »unt i ics
I lie Sun line: Si'Utn e m.is
lias e chci ked in w eck o - ■
but the 4tli ot luls is -til!
dead solid summer I' nu n..
baseball and hot does and
picnics and suntan lot ion and
is.e ere.mi 11 neks .mil 1 >>.u!
trips in the b.K k ol a station
is aeon bouncing around like
lleslis pmb.ills, begguie Dad
0 turn up the air sondmon
ne ami screw the eas mile
ige
I lie I )urst lion sell. >1.1 is
1 sed to celebrating tins
ioiss and sweats occasion
ss intensely charring mi
dense amounts ot flesh, both
Will 1)1 RSI
ours and assorted animals,
then drinking a cooler lull
ot brew skies while shooting
1 >tI tires r.u kers I hat s right.
w e dunk beet and handle
es ploso es. w Ills Ii explains
w hx ihe Jtli christens mans
uis ku.lines like "I etts " and
Pateh "
No matter w hat side ot the
jsoliiie.il s|xvirum sour team
I'las' on. this is a non parti-
san parts IIippies and hawks
ts'ili exercise their freedoms
bs flipping l-risbees and tir
mg up the grill although it's
a lot easier to keep a rack
ot hiihs backs from slipping
through the grates than bean
sprouts
Hard to think ot a snapshot
ot the I S A more iconic than
a small toss 11 4th of Jyly pa-
rade with kids stringing bun-
ting m their bicycles sjxikes
and streamers doing their
streaming thing from the
handlebars Where tricycles
and Big \\ heels careen be1
tween crass ling convertibles
containing beauty queens
waving ssitli one hand and
holding tight their tiaras ssitli
the other Where hardware
stores sponsor floats and
politicians are booed
Speaking of ss hieli. 4th ot
July also signals the a|X’x ot
the marching band season
(I.Hxl marching bands and
bail marching bands. A dif-
ference which is ra/or thin.
I hose |>001 |x‘ople practice
all year long and get one
lousx das. Seriousls. how
mans John Plullip Sousa al-
bums do sou ovsn ’
1-sen in Nan Prancisco. we
do the red wlute and blue
tiling so big and bad. the
ghost of Patrick Henry slaps
us imaginary high lives. It s
the perfect time to forget the
troubles facing this nation
and concentrate on the goixl
tilings I txxl. Tamils, friends
and tireworks. Although
l> times out of 10 our light
displass get lost in the fog.
Instead ot ".x>h" and "aahh."
sse get "Ininh?" and "what?"
So get sour summer licks
in. Buy a ness bathing suit.
Ply it flag. Wear white shoes.
Pat a roasted cob ot corn
and let the butter slide right
down your arm and drip oft
your elbow. Snore in a ham-
mock. And blow some stuff
up real gixxxxxl Because it
won't be long before we're
stuffing the flip-flops back
in the closet and hauling out
the school backpacks and
pumpkin earsing kits Happy
23X(h birthday America. And
you should know, in the right
light, sou don't look a das
os er IX4
Copyright < 2014. Will
Hurst, distributed bs the ( d
e/e Cartoons hie. x\mlinite.
Will Durst is an award war
nan;, nationally act hnincd
political < titan (So to will
durst .t tun to find about more
about the new documentary
film "A Still Standing." anti
a calendar y tilde to per
sonal appearanees an hid
iny las neu oat’ man slant
' HoomeRayiny: horn LSD
ti' OU( S. " at the Santa ( ru.
L'rinye Festival July 10 DF
F.mad Will at durstta
eayleearti ions.a nn
AUSTIN - A U S. House
Homeland Security Com-
mittee field hearing titled.
“Crisis on the Texas Border:
Surge of Unaccompanied
Minors," was conducted in
McAllen on July 3.
Texas Department of Pub-
lic Safety Director Steven
MeCraw was among those
who testified. He said unac-
companied Central Ameri-
can children are continuing
to make the journey to the
United States through Texas
in record numbers; and
-- U.S. Border Patrol de-
tention facilities in the Rio
Grande Valley and elsewhere
are overwhelmed;
— Drug trafficking orga-
nizations tire gaining power
as a direct result of a porous
border; and
-- State troopers, agents
and Texas Rangers tire being
deployed to the Rio Grande
Valley “to conduct data-driv-
en. multi-agency, ground, air
and marine saturation patrols
in high threat areas for sus-
tained periods of time."
(ios. Rick Perry lestilicit,
too. Here are excerpts from
what he said: "Last week I
w itnessed the difficult eon
dilions these children are
being housed in while they
await action by Washington,
whether it's the right deei
sion to immediately deport
them or the shortsighted and
tragic decision to essentially
turn them lixise in the United
States. Some might think al-
low i 11 g them to stas is a more
humane option. I assure you.
it is not. Nobods is doing tins
of these children the slight
est favor by delay ing a rapid
return to their countries ol
origin, which in many eases
is not Mexico."
U.S Rep. Michael Mc-
C'anI. R Texas, chair of the
House Homeland Security
Committee, listed more than
a dozen areas of action the
federal government is tak
ing. one of w hich was public
health screenings "for all
those ss ho come into our la-
eilities tor any symptoms ol
contagious diseases or other
possible public health eon
cerns "
Cost analysis
is released
Slate Comptroller Susan
Combs on June 30 an-
nounced the publication ol an
analysis of new school con-
struction costs.
Combs said the analysis,
conducted by her agency.
shows practices school dis
triets can implement to stive
money, such as “architectural
prototypes that suit elemen
tars, middle or high schools,
sas ing months of const ruc-
tion time anil hundreds ot
thousands of dollars."
"Schools can be built effi-
ciently and less expensively,
but districts don't alwass
chixise to ilo so." Combs
said. "()ur report pros ides
taxpayers and schixil districts
with additional information
to consider w hen making
those choices"
Construction cost figures
are inflation adjusted and
take into account regional
differences in the price of
T F XAS HHE SS A SSOCIAT ION
State . Capital
HIGHLIGHTS
_By Ed Storing_
materials and labor. Combs
said.
Drought conditions
persist
Gov. Perry on July 3 re-
newed for another month the
drought emergency disaster
o he originally proclaimed on
July 5, 2011. certify ing ex-
ceptional drought conditions
pose a threat of imminent
disaster in specified counties
in Texas. This current proc-
lamation extension applies to
I I X of the stale's 2X4 coun-
ties.
"Rules and regulations
that may inhibit or present
prompt response to this threat
are suspended for the dura-
tion of the state of disaster."
the proclamation states.
Site shows
impact of bases
Comptroller Combs on
July 2 publicized a ness
source of information on the
economic impact of military
installations in the state.
TheTexasPconomy org
military highlights how the
state and lixal communi-
ties support mililais ael 1 s 1-
lies anil families and gives
examples of ways military
activities spur economic de
s elopment and innox at ion in
Texas.
Texas military installa-
tions. ss hieli employ more
than 2X5.000 military and
defense related civilian |xm
sonnel. provide an impact
"of nearly S IXO billion to the
state economy and account
for b percent of the stale's
economic act is ities." ( ombs
said
Anti-trafficking
force meets
The Texas Human Traflick
ing Prevention I ask Porcc.
chaired In Attorney General
(ireg Abbott. met in Austin
on July I.
At the meeting. Abbott
promoted a new publication
titled "Intiixluction to Hu
man Trafficking: A (iuidc for
Texas Pducalion Profession
tils.”
He said the publication,
available at oag.state.t\.us.
would further the task force's
efforts "to identify, investi-
gate anil prosecute human
traftickers such as: the re-
alities of human trafticking.
federal and state laws detin
ing and prohibiting human
trafticking. human trafticking
as a form ot child abuse,
risk factors for school-aged
children, indicators of tin
man trafficking, approaches
to responding to an outers, a
mechanism to report human
trafticking. and proactive
approaches for school dis
triets."
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Peak, Greg. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 55, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 10, 2014, newspaper, July 10, 2014; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth788678/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.