I used to read Sowell's column in the daily paper. I never once felt more educated afterwards, except insofar as seeing how many twists someone could put in a "logical" argument to get it to come out at the conclusion they want.

He takes his own life experience as an excuse to deny the reality of everyone else's; since he (or so he claims) "never experienced systemic racism", therefore there's no such thing as systemic racism. The student protesters in the '60s were "hoodlums with academic problems who were admitted under lower standards"- in other words, they didn't deserve to be in college in the first place, affirmative action created the problem instead of solving it.

Sowell has always struck me as protesting too much; as if he's denying his own history because that will make it go away.