Recently watched some youtube videos of economist Thomas Sowell debate some people concerning racial inequality in the law, schools and business. Mr Sowell is a very well educated and intelligent man. He happens to be a black man with conservative views. I won't do a complete biopic but he wasn't always a conservative and in fact admits to being a Marxist in his college years.  

I watched him give a testimony before Congress, Joe Biden to be exact. It was concerning black college student numbers at major universities such as Harvard and MIT. Sowell pointed out that because MIT and Harvard felt the need to fill a certain quota with a certain demographic, the black college students were failing out of the top tier universities instead of excelling at state schools.

Biden questioned Sowell as if this were his personal belief. Sowell had to remind Biden that it wasn't his belief that made this true, it was the numbers. Plain and simple fact. Someone once said, theres math and then everything else is debatable.

You see, Biden derives the facts from his beliefs: Sowell derives his beliefs from the facts. This is a typical contrast between a liberal and a conservative. Sure liberals love to cite facts but they are usually clouded with a personal bias.