Breitbart.com ^ | September 12, 2015 | Ian Hanchett
Columnist and author of “Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective,” Thomas Sowell argued that allowing refugees from the Middle East and Africa into the US “fits in wonderfully” with President Obama’s desire to “to redistribute that [America’s] wealth and power” on Friday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Sowell stated, “I guess for the president, I think it’s a fairly simple thing, this is a man who acts as a citizen of the world, and who has expressed, on numerous occasions, a belief that the United States has too much wealth, power, etc. And that the answer is to redistribute that wealth...
White Supremacists like Sowell?
Oh, how the worm turns
Early life and education
Sowell was born into an African-American family in
Gastonia, North Carolina, near the border with South Carolina. His father died shortly before he was born, and his mother, a
housemaid, already had four children. A great-aunt and her two grown daughters adopted Sowell and raised him.
[4] In his autobiography,
A Personal Odyssey, Sowell wrote that his childhood encounters with white people were so limited that he did not know that blond was a hair color.
[5] When Sowell was nine, his family moved from
Charlotte, North Carolina to
Harlem,
New York City as part of the
Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North for greater opportunities. He qualified for
Stuyvesant High School, a prestigious academic high school in New York City; he was the first in his family to study beyond the sixth grade. However, he was forced to drop out at age 17 because of financial difficulties and problems in his home.
[4]
Sowell held a number of positions, including one at a machine shop and another as a delivery man for
Western Union,
[6] and he tried out for the
Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948.
[7] He was
drafted into the military in 1951, during the
Korean War, and was assigned to the
United States Marine Corps. Because of his experience in
photography, Sowell became a Marine Corps photographer; he also trained Marines in .45 pistol proficiency.
[4] - Wikipedia