Well, Walter Williams is at it again. Once again making constitutional arguments that bear no resemblance to reality. In his latest piece he once again tangles the sticky issue of Freedom of Association. Basically it's OK for us all to be racist if we want to.
"Or, suppose you want to be in my club, but neither my fellow club members nor I want you. The question is, how much do we Americans value freedom of association?"
You see all we, as a society, have to to do to privitize everything, and then we can get back to Jim Crow. Why not? If no federal money is going to a restaurant, why shouldn't the restaurant be allowed to put up a sign saying "No Blacks?" According to Walter Williams (who, for those of you who don't know, is black), nothing. Remind me again, which of the two parties wants to privitize everything?
It would be nice if Williams at least pretended to understand that racism against Blacks still existed, but perhaps for him it doesn't. He's making plenty of money telling Whites it's ok to discriminate against Blacks, and isn't that the American Dream?
Perhaps I ought to get off my high horse for a moment, and admit that Williams has a valid point about the right not to associate; but you cannot make a statement like that without also looking at all the ramifications of it, unless your point is to ignore those ramifications.
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