I was thinking about going through this point by point but this line serves as a nice catch-all. I'm not even slightly motivated to scurry around finding further reading for you. I have no idea why you'd imagine that your opinion is important enough to me that I'd bother. Especially when I know that you'll just continue to dodge and change the subject. .
For example, your point was that 14.7% of the population is black and you though that was more than accounted for by the leftover 20%. You even provided me with a handy link to the data as if I didn't already know it. But sure, now you've realised that you were wrong your point is suddenly something else...
Similarly, I wrote:
"Privilege isn’t about microaggressions or minor social perks. It’s the cumulative effect of opportunities that your ancestors enjoyed long before you were born."
The central point of the article is pointing out that privilege isn't about stupid things like representation for black people OR for white people. But I didn't refute it ENOUGH for you.
Sports is as close to a meritocracy as anything you could ever hope to find. Not perfect, there are still financial barriers in many sports, but you don't need to be selected at an interview to go to the Olympics. Even the hordcore crazies, on both sides of the issue, aren't arguing that sport is racist.
The disingenuousness continues...
The phrase "even Steven" appears exactly twice in my article but my article "is all about it". Jim Crow was less than sixty years ago but we're "several generations beyond it". I say that Sowell has conservative views and you misread that (either intentionally or becauise you're not paying attention) as me saying he's a conservative. You know, some of us are capable of flexibilitiy in our thinking instead of slavishly following one set of doctrines.
All of this to say that I've been arguing on the internet for more than long enough to tell when somebody just wants to waste my time and has no interest in anything other than clinging to their existing point of view.
And honestly, I don't mind at all if you do. Clearly you were never going to care about racism, much less do anything about it, so it's not a loss if you still don't after this conversation. Your "tough love" means an enormous amount to me random internet stranger number 2,764,938. Consider me suitably chastened.
