DISCRIMIONATION AND DISPARITIES

Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities (New York: Basic Books, 2018):

     A categorical institution like the government cannot be expected to make the best incremental trade-offs. History suggests that government cannot do so, especially when operating within the confines of  a social vision based on assumptions of sameness, or at least comparability, among people, when there is no such sameness or comparability even within an underclass minority community in the United States, much less between an underclass minority community and middle-class communities of either minority or majority populations
     What can be seen from history, however, is that when people sort themselves out, instead of having the government do so, they seem to get better results--not without strife but with less strife than in later times when government 'solutions' abounded, and so did racial polarization.

Id. at 122..