{"id":4787,"date":"2003-02-14T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-14T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2021-09-18T00:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T00:51:24","slug":"equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/02\/14\/equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/thomassowell\/ts20030214.shtml\">Random thoughts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trying to explain inequality is like trying to explain why people don&#8217;t flap their arms and fly. There was never any reason to expect people to fly and there was never any reason to expect people&#8217;s performances to be equal, when there are innumerable influences at work differently for each individual and group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, we are no longer worried about creating opportunity.  It&#8217;s all about the outcome, as if an individual shouldn&#8217;t be responsible for their actions when given the chance to sink or swim.  Equality is a myth conceived in a collectivist Hell.  Don&#8217;t confuse opportunity with outcome.  For those who don&#8217;t know the difference, there is no hope for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell on Random thoughts: Trying to explain inequality is like trying to explain why people don&#8217;t flap their arms and fly. There was never any reason to expect people to fly and there&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[127,213],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity","tag-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s89tuq-equality","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7521,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/7521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}