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Katharine Birbalsingh on Thomas Sowell and Theodore Dalrymple

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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'We'll Beat You Up'

Dowrympel says he has treated many a youth who had been literally beaten up because they excelled in school. He reports about this phenomenon among an exclusively white population in Britain. But his discussion reminds me of the American phenomenon among black students, which Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, John McWhorter, and others call acting white. Yet another study. showed a pervasive pattern of not only neglecting schoolwork, but even of distaining it to the point of resenting those black students who applied themselves or who spoke standard English.

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