Joe Rogan meets my absolute hero!

I've been a huge fan of Thomas Sowell for many years. Read many of his books. Sowell is a Harvard trained economist who did his PHD work with Milt Friedman and has been on Stanford's faculty for many years.

Sowell, an African American, was born dirt poor in Gastonia, N.C. and started his career as a Marxist scholar/advocate. Now a conservative he's for many years been (my opinion) the nation's leading expert on black economic and cultural history. Strong words but I believe he can back that statement up.

I've just finished one of his earlier works, Black Rednecks and White Liberals(published 2005). By coincidence, Joe Rogan had a guest on his show who was deeply moved by the same book and articulate enough to explain it's central thesis in about 5 minutes.

If you like to read the book here's the link:

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rednecks-White-Liberals-Autonomy-ebook/dp/B003XRDBYE

Some of my other favorite reads of his

Why Charter Schools are the single best tool to help raise African American's fortunes in socieity.

https://www.amazon.com/Charter-Schools-Enemies-Thomas-Sowell-ebook/dp/B08421GP4S/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=charter+schools+and+their+enemies&qid=1648762661&s=digital-text&sprefix=charter+schoo%2Cdigital-text%2C112&sr=1-1

Discrimination and Disparities: Have blacks prospered at any time after slavery? Why not now? Did things actually improve dramatically until the 1060s?

https://www.amazon.com/Discrimination-Disparities-Thomas-Sowell-ebook/dp/B07JLS7P8D/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=