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A 3 page review of an article published in the April 14, 1995 edition of “The Washington Times” entitled “Afrocentric Escapism”. Sowell explores what he perceives as the creation of false history and tradition in the African American community. Sowell explains this practice as having evolved out of the dire need to escape the multitude of very real problems which are confronting the community. While the solution to such problems lies in education and the acquisition of job skills, those who are recreating the so-called black experience are instead focusing the attention of their young followers on the problems of the past. Includes many insights on the misperceptions of slavery itself. No additional sources are listed.
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In "Afrocentric Escapism", an article published in the April 14, 1995 edition of "The Washington Times", author Thomas Sowell explores what he perceives as the creation
of false history and tradition in the African American community. Sowell explains this practice as having evolved out of the dire need to escape the multitude of very real
problems which are confronting the community. These problems include drugs, violence and social degradation in general and were particularly rampant in the ghettos of the 1990s. While the
solution to such problems lies in education and the acquisition of job skills, those who are recreating the so-called black experience are instead focusing the attention of their young followers
on the problems of the past. Sowell contends that while slavery did indeed have very real consequences for blacks in America, those consequences can only be overcome by a
focus on the future rather than the past. He proclaims that regardless of an individuals race or ideology, there is precious little time allotted and we must use that
time as wisely as possible. Sowell (1995) rashly cuts to the point chiding that if blacks want to spend their allotment of time:
"navel gazing about roots while others are learning square roots, and contemplating chains while others are mastering computers, do not be
surprised if the whole parade into the future leaves you behind, mired in squalor, imprisoned by ignorance and misled by demagogues".
Sowell (1995) denounces demagoguery as damaging to the black race as a whole, noting the many perverse incentives through which so-called black "leaders" and
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