On the Fact that When Thomas Sowell Was a Kid Growing Up In Harlem In the 1940s, He Used to Go to the Store by Himself at Night, Walk His Dog In Morningside Park, and Sleep On the Fire-Escape When it Was Hot Out

Yeah, I guess that the past wasn't entirely awful after all. Even for blacks (Sowell also underscores how the black teen unemployment rate was actually lower than that of white teens during the late '40s).................................................................................................P.S. And, yes, I get it that there was some bad shit in the '40s, too (higher poverty rates, more discrimination, etc.), but being that safety is the most fundamental need of all (according to Maslow, at least), the past might not be the worst teacher here, I'm simply suggesting.