{"id":20503,"date":"2023-12-08T13:59:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20503"},"modified":"2023-12-08T13:59:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:59:40","slug":"firing-line-friday-the-economic-lot-of-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/12\/08\/firing-line-friday-the-economic-lot-of-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: The Economic Lot of Minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Is is <em>en vogue<\/em> to declare that non-Whites are oppressed and suffer due to a \u201csystem of oppression\u201d. It was also <em>en vogue<\/em> half-a-century ago to blame Black poverty on various factors. Thusly, William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses with Harriet F. Pilpel and the veritable Thomas Sowell the question of <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the economic lot of minorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fTiba4ElD0U?si=d1jcy_SQ5dk5Plsb\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: The Economic Lot of Minorities\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Is is en vogue to declare that non-Whites are oppressed and suffer due to a \u2018system of oppression\u2019.  It was also en vogue half-a-century ago to blame Black poverty on various factors.  Thusly, William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses with Harriet F. Pilpel and the veritable Thomas Sowell the question of the economic lot of minorities.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Is is en vogue to declare that non-Whites are oppressed and suffer due to a \u201csystem of oppression\u201d. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/12\/08\/firing-line-friday-the-economic-lot-of-minorities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17,1],"tags":[59,95,25,24,48],"class_list":["post-20503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-firing-line-friday","tag-higher-ed","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20505,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503\/revisions\/20505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}