Thomas Sowell is a talented polemicist, a right-wing ideologue who marshals a few selective facts that happen to support his thesis and then makes a case for his ideology. I've read Thomas Sowell's columns for almost 30 years, so I think I know his biases pretty well. Maybe you don't. Maybe you do. But there's a lot more to Detroit's history than a few statistics assembled by an ideological ax-grinder.
Anyway, I know this game too well.
When somebody would rather derail the discussion by questioning the bona fides of somebody discussing it, you can be pretty darn sure that person has hit upon something right.
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