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[HiPointDem]

12. whatever else sowell is, he didn't come from privilege. at least judging from his bio, he's

experienced the world from both sides. He grew up poor & worked his way up, and was also lucky to be born in time to come of age in the post-war boom when doors were opening for black americans.

and he likes being among the elite. he's completely 'educated' and nothing you or anyone else says is going to change him, i'd bet. lots of self-made people are like that.

Sowell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina. His father died shortly before he was born, and his mother, a housemaid, already had four children. A great-aunt and her two grown daughters adopted Sowell and raised him.

In his autobiography, A Personal Odyssey, he said his childhood encounters with white people were so limited that he did not believe blond was really a hair color. When Sowell was nine, his family moved from Charlotte, North Carolina to Harlem, New York City.

He attended Stuyvesant High School, the first in his family to study beyond the sixth grade. However, he was forced to drop out at age 17 because of financial difficulties and problems in his home.

He worked at a number of jobs, including at a machine shop and as a delivery man for Western Union,[4] and tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948.[5] Sowell was drafted in 1951, during the Korean War, and was assigned to the United States Marine Corps. Because of his experience in photography, he became a Marine Corps photographer; he also trained Marines in .45-caliber pistol proficiency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell