Posted on 01/21/2011 9:04:20 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule
'Sometimes I sarcastically, perhaps cynically, say that I'm glad that I received virtually all of my education before it became fashionable for white people to like black people," writes Walter Williams in his new autobiography, "Up from the Projects." "By that I mean that I encountered back then a more honest assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Professors didn't hesitate to criticize me—sometimes to the point of saying, 'That's nonsense.'"
Mr. Williams, an economist at George Mason University, is contrasting being black and poor in the 1940s and '50s with today's experience. It's a theme that permeates his short, bracing volume of reminiscence, and it's where we began our conversation on a recent morning at his home in suburban Philadelphia.
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Nice article about my favorite geust host for Rush.
Great post. Guy is a national treasure.
Thanks for the post. Great read.
That's a dead accurate statement of how it once was for blacks in America. In my father's day, Barack Obama would never have amounted to much more than a school teacher. In my grandfather's time, he wouldn't have gone much further than shoe shine boy.
My fathers had to work their hineys off to achieve the successes they did in their lifetimes. They earned every bit of it through honest hard work and excellence.
Thanks for the new tag line.
Really enjoyed reading that. Thanks for posting it.
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Sounds like a book I’d love to read!
Walter Williams, Tom Sowell, Larry Elder. All voices of sanity, all have paid a heavy price for criticizing black America, BRA and 0bama.
I read Williams’ book in one evening. He has a great life story.
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Walter Williams has been one of my heroes for decades. He was a regular panel member on a local Philly TV show that aired every Sunday morning back in the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s to discuss politics. He and Irv Homer were usually the ones who made sense. Naturally, most of the rest of the panel members were babbling liberals.
First, graduate from high school.Always worth restating.
Second, get married before you have children, and stay married.
Third, work at any kind of job, even one that starts out paying the minimum wage.
Finally, avoid engaging in criminal behavior.
Women have been and are riding the affirmative action "wave" but it will eventually come back to goose them.. Women are not a minority they are a majority of the population.. Feminism has become a scam.. a liberal democrat therefore socialist /progressive scam..
It is NOT benign..
Brilliant article about a brilliant man! I am a scientist, not an economist, so I had no idea that the passage of the Davis-Bacon act was an attempt to prevent “colored” people from working for lower wages than whites would accept.
Love this guy.
Bumping this article!
I was hoping our library system had the book, but it doesn’t.
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