Black rednecks and white liberals is a collection of six essays by thomas sowell the collection published in 2005 explores various aspects of race and culture both in the united states and abroad. Black rednecks and white liberals is an amazing piece of cultural analysis that anyone interested in american politics must read it may be one of the most important social commentaries in the last 50 years and will help you understand why many powerful private and political groups have worked very hard to silence dr sowell and his work. White liberals are not going to save black people no matter how much they need to tikkun olam or make the world a better place only blacks can fix their problems and it starts with changing the dysfunctional behaviors they adopted from their white redneck neighbors in the south the subject of the title essay ie violence drunkenness teen pregnancy etc if they dont change those . Black rednecks and white liberals is an amazing piece of cultural analysis that anyone interested in american politics must read it may be one of the most important social commentaries in the last 50 years and will help you understand why many powerful private and political groups have worked very hard to silence dr sowell and his work. With respect to black rednecks white liberals i highlighted many of the same quotes but was delighted to become aware of those others as for the vast reservoir of his other quotes i could have liked 999 of them but there were so many i needed to get on with other things