Reddit reviews The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective

Wow, there is a lot that can be said about this. We need a few hours though. Heres some light reading though,

Howard Zinn

Jabari Asim

Thomas Sowell

All good reads and lends a little perspective on "why so neurotic" about race in America. They did their damnedest to place a system that would make sure this would remain a white man's society. We are still dealing with the fallout.

EDIT FOR BUTTHURTEDNESS: Why downvotes and no comments. Have you guys read these books? Economic weirdness led to a lot of the race problems we have in this country and these books point out some of those. Chris Rock made a joke about it. It's unfortunate that a lot of the weird laws and rules that made distinctions between the races really came into stride after 1776, but they did. Not Only that! That is a nice well rounded list of books. Howard Zinn (Nice harsh look at forgotten history) to Thomas Sowell (Thats as conservative you can get about race without falling into Stormfront territory).

>It's the same reason the market solves the problem of discrimination, surely?

Actually, Thomas Sowell has written at length about how superior the market is in terms of discrimination to minorities than the State: "The competitiveness of the market puts a price on discrimination, thereby reducing but not necessarily eliminating it"

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