http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-individualist-an-interview-with-anne-wortham#ixzz2qyJlvvPO
Rational thinking. This is what it looks like.
Rather than liberating blacks from their dependency on the state that began with the New Deal, and respecting them by insisting that they take responsibility for their freedom, civil rights leaders, politicians, and the American people proceeded to expand New Deal policies with Great Society policies that have cultivated the American peoples expectation that the costs of an individuals risky behavior will be borne not by the individual but by a pool of peopleby taxpayers in general, by the rich in particular, by society at large...
Whenever there is a crisis that is defined as exacerbating the wound of racism, the air is filled with the ritualistic cry for a conversation on race. The problem with the call for a conversation is that it requires that whites and blacks lie to each other. The conversation is stymied by two pathologies: the self-indictment of whites who were raised to believe that acknowledgment of collective guilt is a badge of honor, and the self-indictment of minorities who were raised to believe that collective victimhood is a badge of moral superiority...
Rational thinking. This is what it looks like.