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WILLIAMS: Costs must be weighed against benefits
This is one of the last two op-ed pieces Dr. Walter Williams ever wrote. One of the first lessons in an economics class is every action has a cost. That is in stark contrast to […]
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SOWELL: Walter E. Williams 1936-2020
Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his […]
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WILLIAMS: Discrimination and prejudice
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms […]
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WILLIAMS: Correct diagnostics needed
You present to a physician with severe abdominal pain. He examines you and concludes that your ingrown toenails are the cause of your abdominal distress. He prescribes that you soak your feet in warm water, […]
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WILLIAMS: Racial deception
During slavery, many black women, often in a forcible union with a white man, bore mixed-race children. Based on their percentage of white blood, they were deemed “mulattos,” “quadroons,” “octoroons” or even “hexadecaroons.” Depending on […]
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WILLIAMS: Diversity, equity and inclusion nonsense
Check out any professional and most college basketball teams. Their starting five, and most of their other 10 players, are black, as is 80% of the NBA. This does not come anywhere close to the […]
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WILLIAMS: Institutional racism
Institutional racism and systemic racism are terms bandied about these days without much clarity. Being 84 years of age, I have seen and lived through what might be called institutional racism or systemic racism. Both […]
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WILLIAMS: Are today’s leftists truly Marxists?
Most people who call themselves Marxists know very little of Karl Marx’s life and have never read his three-volume “Das Kapital.” Volume I was published in 1867, the only volume published before Marx’s death in […]
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Human Coalition requests Gov. Cooper shut down, investigate Planned Parenthood clinics
RALEIGH — Rev. Dean Nelson, an African American minister and executive director for Human Coalition Action, has sent a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper asking him to fight racism and temporarily close all nine Planned […]
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HILL: Want true ‘diversity’ and ‘equality’ in your child’s education?
A private school north of the Mason-Dixon line with a tuition of over $62,000 per year recently sent out a notice to alums about the changes they are making to their school policy and faculty […]