Recommend a Non-Fiction Book

Ajackson17 · April 2013

@drew_ali you don't think its good reading material? I find the book very fascinating and shows that a lot of southerners are descendants of the ancient celtics and how they retained their culture and blacks adopted the culture in which turned into Ghetto culture and how he explains it. It's worth reading at least.

Drew_Ali · April 2013

@Ajackson17......

I have read some of his books........

On one hand he makes great points.......

Then goes off on some historically inaccurate ? ......

Like, he claims that whites care more about money than color........

Which, is subjective & interesting, but inaccurate......

"At the core of neo-Confederacy is a genetic argument, the belief that "Southern" people and culture are "Anglo-Celtic." This argument initially surfaced in the mid-1970s in the work of historian Grady McWhiney, who died in 2006, and his colleagues at the University of Alabama."

" Not only does this argument completely bypass the central issue of slavery, but also numerous scholars have exposed the flaws in the propositions forwarded by McWhiney and other proponents of the "Celtic South" thesis. Amongst the many criticisms are demonstrations that advocates of the "Celtic South" thesis rely upon erroneous assessments of U.S. Census data from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, incorrectly understand immigration patterns in the United States, reduce the diversity of the early American population to homogenous, culturally monolithic blocks, and expansively define who comprises "Celtic" people in a manner that is wholly inconsistent with usages employed by other scholars."

Contrary to popular belief, the south had a low population of Europeans with Celtic ancestry.......

And blacks did not copy anything from them.......

They had their own culture, gullah, in the south that got assimilated with American or "white" ........

This guy Sowell is a ? ...........

Would not waste time reading anymore of his fuckery..........

Ajackson17 · April 2013

Drew_Ali wrote: »

@Ajackson17......

I have read some of his books........

On one hand he makes great points.......

Then goes off on some historically inaccurate ? ......

Like, he claims that whites care more about money than color........

Which, is subjective & interesting, but inaccurate......

"At the core of neo-Confederacy is a genetic argument, the belief that "Southern" people and culture are "Anglo-Celtic." This argument initially surfaced in the mid-1970s in the work of historian Grady McWhiney, who died in 2006, and his colleagues at the University of Alabama."

" Not only does this argument completely bypass the central issue of slavery, but also numerous scholars have exposed the flaws in the propositions forwarded by McWhiney and other proponents of the "Celtic South" thesis. Amongst the many criticisms are demonstrations that advocates of the "Celtic South" thesis rely upon erroneous assessments of U.S. Census data from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, incorrectly understand immigration patterns in the United States, reduce the diversity of the early American population to homogenous, culturally monolithic blocks, and expansively define who comprises "Celtic" people in a manner that is wholly inconsistent with usages employed by other scholars."

Contrary to popular belief, the south had a low population of Europeans with Celtic ancestry.......

And blacks did not copy anything from them.......

They had their own culture, gullah, in the south that got assimilated with American or "white" ........

This guy Sowell is a ? ...........

Would not waste time reading anymore of his fuckery..........