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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

I grew up in an era whenpeople, particularly blacks, were a lot poorer than today, faced a...

I grew up in an era when
people, particularly blacks, were a lot poorer than today, faced a lot
more discrimination than today, and in which the teenage
pregnancy rate was a lot lower than today

Full Transcript

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I grew up in an era when people, particularly blacks,
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were a lot poorer than today,
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faced a lot more discrimination than today,
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and in which the teenage pregnancy rate
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was a lot lower than today.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:44:37
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Free To Choose Enterprise

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Traces Thomas Sowell's journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of our era's most controversial economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors.
I don't believe there is a predestined amount - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
I don't believe there is a predestined amount
Gutman has done a study of the black family - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
Gutman has done a study of the black family
"Some things are believed - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:19
"Some things are believed
I wrote a book on language, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
I wrote a book on language,
His son was a late talker, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:14
His son was a late talker,
This meshed with my own understanding - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
This meshed with my own understanding
So I wrote to Tom saying, "Your intuition about your son - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:10
So I wrote to Tom saying, "Your intuition about your so...
Eventually, his son John not only began to speak, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
Eventually, his son John not only began to speak,
Sowell wrote about this remarkable journey - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:23
Sowell wrote about this remarkable journey
One of those impacted was Los Angeles-based writer - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:11
One of those impacted was Los Angeles-based writer
When Sam was about 18 months old, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
When Sam was about 18 months old,
No word that we could make out to be an English word. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:05
No word that we could make out to be an English word.
So I started looking online and saw late-talking children, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:14
So I started looking online and saw late-talking children,
I had already noticed in Sam - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:09
I had already noticed in Sam
He would have movies that he just loved watching - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:25
He would have movies that he just loved watching
So the fact that Sowell's book talked about bright children, - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:06
So the fact that Sowell's book talked about bright chil...
So went to go see Dr. Camarata, to get an evaluation. - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:07
So went to go see Dr. Camarata, to get an evaluation.
And they gave us a full plan of what we could do to help him - Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World 00:08
And they gave us a full plan of what we could do to help him
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