Black Exploitation

Walter Williams, in his quest to become the nuttiest conservative has done it again. In his latest piece, Williams argues against a National Slave Memorial. He states, "If a slave memorial is built on the National Mall, it will simply become a media backdrop for the likes of race hustlers like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Black Congressional Caucus to spew their anti-American venom and call for quotas and reparations for slavery."

OK, let's follow that logic. So a day honoring Martin Luther King Jr. is bad too, I assume? I mean that provides a focal point for Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson doesn't it? Same with Black History month. Same with paying any official attention to African American history. African American History is best forgotten, due to it's potential for exploitation by liberals. I'm surprised he didn't call on us to tear down all monuments to Black Americans.

The problem with Williams is that he is a prominent black Conservative, and thus calling him nuts may or may not bring forth calls or racism. But unlike Thomas Sowell (who obsesses an incisive mind) and Armstrong Williams (who writes very well, and possesses an empathy that many conservative writers lack), he seems determined to push an America in which Blacks are basically told that we've solved all their problems, and that any further problems they suffer from are their own fault.