Once Again Walter Williams Talks Straight and Speaks the Truth Better than Anyone Else

It seems Walter Williams has a special knack of cutting through politically correct garbage, political garbage, racist garbage, and liberal garbage and getting right to the heart of important issues. His way to do this is through honesty, ability, and truth.

Well, he has done it again. And by comparison, he has shown that Eric Holder is mentally dull and racially biased. Following are some excerpts from Walter Williams Feb. 25, 2009 column at Townhall.com source

Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States is "a nation of cowards" when it comes to race relations. In one sense, he is absolutely right. Many whites, from university administrators and professors, schoolteachers to employers and public officials accept behavior from black people that they wouldn't begin to accept from whites. For example, some of the nation's most elite universities, such as Vanderbilt, Stanford University and the University of California, have yielded to black student demands for separate graduation ceremonies and separate "celebratory events."

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If white students demanded whites-only graduation ceremonies or whites-only dorms, administrators would have labeled their demands as intolerable racism. When black students demand the same thing, these administrators cowardly capitulate.

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Attorney General Holder's flawed thinking is widespread whereby people think that an activity that is not racially integrated is therefore segregated. Blacks are about 60 percent of the Washington, D.C. population. At the Reagan National Airport, which serves D.C., nowhere near 60 percent of the airport's water fountain users are black; I'd guess blacks are never more than 5 percent of users. The population statistics of states such as South Dakota, Iowa, Maine, Montana and Vermont show that not even 1 percent of their populations are black. Does that mean Reagan National Airport water fountains and South Dakota, Iowa, Maine, Montana and Vermont are racially segregated? If Holder does anything about "voluntary segregation" at the state level I hope it's not court-ordered busing; I'm not wild about their winters. Just because some activity is not racially integrated does not mean that it is racially segregated.

The bottom line is that the civil rights struggle is over and it is won. At one time black Americans didn't share the constitutional guarantees shared by whites; today we do. That does not mean that there are not major problems that confront a large segment of the black community, but they are not civil rights problems nor can they be solved through a "conversation on race."

Please read the entire article.

All of William’s columns are worth reading and this one is exceptional. I agree with these sentences of his:

"The bottom line is that the civil rights struggle is over and it is won. At one time black Americans didn't share the constitutional guarantees shared by whites; today we do."

The logical inference I draw from this one powerful statement is that there are problems in America but they are not civil right issues. They are problems from the guilt-superiority mentality of the radical left, failure of blacks to recognize their political exploitation by the leftists, and the black’s entirely irrational block-voting habits.

Williams also points out the impact of the deterioration of the Black family on problems faced by Blacks. These are serious and horrible problems; but they are not civil rights problems or government problems. They are problems of the black community and how it lives and acts.

There are plenty of demagogues and political charlatans ready to take advantage of any group (block, white, Hispanic, whatever) and to use them for their own selfish monetary and political advantage. This includes all leading Democrats (black and white) preying on all minorities. As Rush Limbaugh likes to point out, decades of liberal “fixes” to poverty, education, etc. have been dismal failures. And charlatans come in all stripes; President Bush’s demagoguery and chicanery in favor of open borders and illegal immigration are unsurpassed. But again, these are not civil right issues and the taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for them over and over.

Once again, please read Williams’ entire article.