Black Mascots

I am interested in learning more about Thomas Sowell and what brought him to a position of NOT embracing affirmative action and other widely accepted educational and economic iniatives. He sounds like a real character - hard to believe he's black. Have you read Black Rednecks and White Liberals?

Sowell argues that there is a far bigger divide between the redneck culture of the South and the culture of more northerly Americans, than between whites and blacks. E.g. Northern blacks tried to stop redneck blacks coming up from the South, and the same happened between northern whites and redneck whites.