The following is an excerpt from a speech ... "RACE, CULTURE,
AND EQUALITY - by Thomas Sowell" It would do us well to consider
the insight and clear thinking provided by Thomas Sowell as we
intend to reconcile issues in our society. "History does not
offer blueprints for the present but it does offer examples and
insights. If nothing else, it can warn us against becoming
mesmerized by the heady visions and soaring rhetoric of the
moment. One of the most seductive visions of our time is the
vision of "fairness" in a sense that the word never had before.
At one time we all understood what was meant by a "fair fight."
It meant that both fighters fought by the same Marquis of
Queensbury rules. It did not mean that both fighters had equal
strength, skill, experience or other factors that would make
them equally likely to win. In today's conception of fairness,
only when all have the same prospects of winning is the fight
fair. It was not in The Nation or some other left-wing magazine,
but in the neoconservative qu