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Walter Williams (RIP): Blacks of yesteryear and today--
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:40 pm
I think this is his last column.
Blacks of yesteryear and today
Sorry about the link I originally posted. I got busy and didn't come back to the thread.
Blacks of yesteryear and today
Sorry about the link I originally posted. I got busy and didn't come back to the thread.
This post was edited on 12/2/20 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:41 pm to JDGTiger
Well that was a quick read.
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:41 pm to JDGTiger
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Walter Williams (RIP)
Oh damn
Hell of a mind. He was a true educator of economics.
This post was edited on 12/2/20 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:42 pm to JDGTiger
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[link=(WALTER WILLIAMS: Blacks of yesteryear and today )]Blacks of yesteryear and today[/link]
Is this only available if you have 5G?
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:43 pm to JDGTiger
The actual link to the article.
This post was edited on 12/2/20 at 12:54 pm
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:45 pm to Sasquatch Smash
Walter is great to listen to on youtube.
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:46 pm to JDGTiger
link doesn't .... wait there's no link..
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:50 pm to JDGTiger
Sorry for the Great Wall o'Text, it's not really that long of an article.
(RIP Professor Williams)
"I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73%, or 3,446, were Black people, and 27%, or 1,297, were white people.
Many whites were lynched because they were Republicans who supported their fellow Black citizens and opposed the lawless act of lynching. Tuskegee University has the best documentation of lynching. It records an 1892 high of 69 whites and 161 blacks lynched. By the 1940s, occurrences of lynching fell to single digits or disappeared altogether.
At the time of my youth, today's opportunities for socioeconomic advancement were nonexistent for Black people. For all but a few, college attendance was out of the question because of finances and racial discrimination.
If you were not admitted to the Black colleges of Lincoln University or Cheyney State College, forget about college. I do not know of any student of my 1954 class at Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin High School who attended college.
Though the quality of education at Benjamin Franklin is a mere shadow of its past, today, roughly 17% of its graduating class has been admitted to college. The true hope for a youngster graduating from high school during the 1950s was a well-paying and steady job. My first well-paying job was as a taxi driver for Yellow Cab Company.
Younger Black people today have no idea of and have not experienced the poverty and discrimination of earlier generations. Also, the problems today's Black people face have little or nothing to do with poverty and discrimination.
Political hustlers like to blame poverty and racism while ignoring the fact that poverty and racism were much greater yesteryear, but there was not nearly the same amount of chaos.
The out-of-wedlock birth rate among Blacks in 1940 was about 11%. Today, it is 75%. Black female-headed households were just 18% of households in 1950, as opposed to about 68% today.
In fact, from 1890 to 1940, the Black marriage rate was slightly higher than that of whites. Even during slavery, when marriage was forbidden, most Black children lived in biological two-parent families.
In New York City, in 1925, 85% of Black households were two-parent households. A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of Black families were two-parent households.
There's little protest against the horrible and dangerous conditions under which many poor and law-abiding Black people must live. It is not uncommon for 50 Black people to be shot over a weekend in Chicago -- not by policemen, but by other Black people.
About 7,300 Black people are murdered each year, and not by white people or racist cops, but mostly by other Black people. These numbers almost make our history of victimization by racist lynching look like child's play.
The solutions to the many problems that Black Americans face must come from within our Black communities. They will not come from the political arena. Blacks hold high offices and dominate the politics in cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New Orleans. Yet, these are the very cities with the nation's worst-performing schools, highest crime rates, high illegitimacy rates, weak family structure and other forms of social pathology.
I am not saying that Blacks having political power is the cause of these problems. What I am saying is the solution to most of the major problems that confront Black people will not be found in the political arena or by electing more Blacks to high office.
One important step is for Black Americans to stop being "useful tools" for the leftist, hate-America agenda. Many Black problems are exacerbated by guilt-ridden white people. Often, they accept behavior and standards from Black people that they would not begin to accept from white people.
In that sense, white liberal guilt is a form of disrespect in their relationships with Black Americans. By the same token, Black people should stop exploiting the guilt of whites. Let us all keep in mind that history is one of those immutable facts of life."
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
(RIP Professor Williams)
"I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73%, or 3,446, were Black people, and 27%, or 1,297, were white people.
Many whites were lynched because they were Republicans who supported their fellow Black citizens and opposed the lawless act of lynching. Tuskegee University has the best documentation of lynching. It records an 1892 high of 69 whites and 161 blacks lynched. By the 1940s, occurrences of lynching fell to single digits or disappeared altogether.
At the time of my youth, today's opportunities for socioeconomic advancement were nonexistent for Black people. For all but a few, college attendance was out of the question because of finances and racial discrimination.
If you were not admitted to the Black colleges of Lincoln University or Cheyney State College, forget about college. I do not know of any student of my 1954 class at Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin High School who attended college.
Though the quality of education at Benjamin Franklin is a mere shadow of its past, today, roughly 17% of its graduating class has been admitted to college. The true hope for a youngster graduating from high school during the 1950s was a well-paying and steady job. My first well-paying job was as a taxi driver for Yellow Cab Company.
Younger Black people today have no idea of and have not experienced the poverty and discrimination of earlier generations. Also, the problems today's Black people face have little or nothing to do with poverty and discrimination.
Political hustlers like to blame poverty and racism while ignoring the fact that poverty and racism were much greater yesteryear, but there was not nearly the same amount of chaos.
The out-of-wedlock birth rate among Blacks in 1940 was about 11%. Today, it is 75%. Black female-headed households were just 18% of households in 1950, as opposed to about 68% today.
In fact, from 1890 to 1940, the Black marriage rate was slightly higher than that of whites. Even during slavery, when marriage was forbidden, most Black children lived in biological two-parent families.
In New York City, in 1925, 85% of Black households were two-parent households. A study of 1880 family structure in Philadelphia shows that three-quarters of Black families were two-parent households.
There's little protest against the horrible and dangerous conditions under which many poor and law-abiding Black people must live. It is not uncommon for 50 Black people to be shot over a weekend in Chicago -- not by policemen, but by other Black people.
About 7,300 Black people are murdered each year, and not by white people or racist cops, but mostly by other Black people. These numbers almost make our history of victimization by racist lynching look like child's play.
The solutions to the many problems that Black Americans face must come from within our Black communities. They will not come from the political arena. Blacks hold high offices and dominate the politics in cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New Orleans. Yet, these are the very cities with the nation's worst-performing schools, highest crime rates, high illegitimacy rates, weak family structure and other forms of social pathology.
I am not saying that Blacks having political power is the cause of these problems. What I am saying is the solution to most of the major problems that confront Black people will not be found in the political arena or by electing more Blacks to high office.
One important step is for Black Americans to stop being "useful tools" for the leftist, hate-America agenda. Many Black problems are exacerbated by guilt-ridden white people. Often, they accept behavior and standards from Black people that they would not begin to accept from white people.
In that sense, white liberal guilt is a form of disrespect in their relationships with Black Americans. By the same token, Black people should stop exploiting the guilt of whites. Let us all keep in mind that history is one of those immutable facts of life."
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
This post was edited on 12/2/20 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:50 pm to soccerfüt
Walter E. Williams was an American treasure. Great mind.
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:51 pm to JDGTiger
He was a Marxist in his younger days who became a Conservative. I saw an interview with him and he was asked what changed his mind, 'I started studying outcomes'.
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:52 pm to JDGTiger
Damn. Walter and Thomas Sowell are my favs
Posted on 12/2/20 at 12:53 pm to JDGTiger
Excellent post. Would read that link 100x and learn from every single words each and every time.
Posted on 12/2/20 at 1:00 pm to JDGTiger
He was one of the few Op-Ed writers in the Baton Rouge Advocate that I agreed with.
Here's an example of his radical thinking about "social justice."
Here's an example of his radical thinking about "social justice."
Posted on 12/2/20 at 1:11 pm to JDGTiger
Walter Williams was a major intellectual force, and he influenced my thinking considerably from the time I was an undergraduate student. He had a clear way of thinking about economics, politics, and race, and he stood as a contrarian to the way that many people in the United States--particularly those on the left and those who are committed to identity politics--think about matters racial. I suspect that he took a lot of heat from his university and scholarly peers for his contrarian arguments. I knew that he was getting up there in age, but I am deeply saddened to hear of his passing.
Posted on 12/2/20 at 2:10 pm to La Place Mike
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Is this only available if you have 5G?
5.5G
Posted on 12/2/20 at 3:49 pm to Sasquatch Smash
Sorry about the original post. The link is now correct.
Posted on 12/4/20 at 12:43 pm to JDGTiger
RIP Walter Williams, that was a great article. I used to love listening to him.
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