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The Will Smith Slap and Sowell's "Black Rednecks and White Liberals"

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

CHAPTER

The Connection Between Pride and Violence

Before black pride became a fashionable phrase, there was cracker pride. Cracker pride was not pride in any particular achievement or set of behavioral standards and moral principles adhered to. It was instead a touchiness about anything that might be even remotely construed as a personal slight, much less an insult, combined with a willingness to erupt into violence over it.

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