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<title><![CDATA[Walter Williams - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16430.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Walter Williams]]></description><category domain="16430">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The True Plight of Black Americans]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2020/06/10/the-true-plight-of-black-americans-n2570249</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While it might not be popular to say in the wake of the recent social disorder, the true plight of black people has little or nothing to do with the police or what has been called "systemic racism." Instead, we need to look at the responsibilities of those running our big cities.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was Trump Right About Baltimore?]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2019/08/07/was-trump-right-about-baltimore-n2551215</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's what President Donald Trump tweeted about Baltimore's congressman and his city: "Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is far...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Must Stop Cowering at False Racism Charge]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2019/07/31/being-a-racist-is-easy-today-n2550780</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Years ago, it was hard to be a racist. You had to be fitted for and spend money on a white gown and don a pointy hat. You celebrated racism by getting some burlap, wrapping it around a cross, setting it ablaze and dancing around it carrying torches.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Kavanaugh and the GMU Snowflakes]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2019/04/24/justice-kavanaugh-and-gmu-snowflakes-n2545163</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School hired Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to co-teach a course this summer called Creation of the Constitution.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Planet Is Not Fragile]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2019/03/06/our-planet-is-not-fragile-n2542516</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Leftists constantly preach such nonsense as "The world that we live in is beautiful but fragile."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Are Democrats Against Securing the Border?]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2019/01/16/politics-of-immigration-n2538997</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats have long taken stances against both legal and illegal immigration.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Worst Enemy of Black People]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2019/01/02/the-worst-enemy-of-black-people-n2538218</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Malcolm X was a Muslim minister and human rights activist.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberal-Controlled Cities Have Let Down Black Americans]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/08/15/enoughs-enough-n2509315</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In addition, there are sky-high rates of burglaries, rapes and property destruction.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kanye West and the Problem for Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/05/16/kanye-and-democrats-n2480490</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the Kanye West dust-up, my heart goes out to the white people who control the Democratic Party.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reason the Left Gives Communism a Pass]]></title>
							<link>http://dailysignal.com/2017/12/20/the-reason-the-left-gives-communism-a-pass/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anita Dunn, President Obama's acting communications director in 2009, said,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blacks vs. Police Is a Misguided Protest]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2017/10/03/blacks-vs-police-n2389488</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let's throw out a few numbers so we can put in perspective the NFL players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem. Many say they are protesting against police treatment of blacks and racial discrimination. We might ask just how much sense their protest makes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black Leaders &amp; the Distraction of Purging Statues]]></title>
							<link>http://dailysignal.com/2017/09/06/black-leaders-focus-lifting-people-poverty-not-purging-statues/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Removing Confederate statues should be the least of the leaders' concerns.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The True Black Tragedy]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/05/20/the-true-black-tragedy-n2000459</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hustlers and people with little understanding want us to believe that today's black problems are the continuing result of a legacy of slavery, poverty and racial discrimination. The fact is that most of the social pathology seen in poor black neighborhoods is entirely new in black...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble with Global Warming Propaganda]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/03/11/global-warming-n1967847</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA["But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact," said President Barack Obama in his 2014 State of the Union address. Saying the debate is settled is nonsense, but the president is right about climate change.GlobalChange.gov gives the definition of climate change: "Changes in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cancer of Multiculturalism]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/02/25/the-cancer-of-multiculturalism-n1961061</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama surprised many at the National Prayer Breakfast when he lectured us, "Lest we get on our high horse and think this (barbarity) is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tragic School Stories]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tragic-school-stories/article/2559669</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[New York's schools are the most segregated in the nation, and the state needs remedies right away. That was Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch's message to New York's governor and Legislature. She said that minority children are disproportionately trapped in schools that lack teaching talent,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Black Progression and Retrogression]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/black-progression-and-retrogression/article/2557725</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is no question, though it's not acknowledged enough, that black Americans have made greater gains, over some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of time, than any other racial group in mankind's history. What's the evidence? If black Americans were thought of as a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In 2014, Is Racism the Problem?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/can-racial-discrimination-explain-much/article/2556814</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the medical profession, there is the admonition primum non nocere, the Latin expression for "first, do no harm." In order not to do harm, at the minimum, requires accurate diagnostics. Suppose a patient presents with abdominal pains, and the physician diagnoses it as caused by the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Multiculturalism Is a Failure]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2014/09/17/multiculturalism-is-a-failure-n1891941/page/full</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that in Germany, multiculturalism has "utterly failed." Both Australia's ex-prime minister John Howard and Spain's ex-prime minister Jose Maria Aznar reached the same conclusion about multiculturalism in their countries. British Prime Minister...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blacks Must Confront Reality]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2014/08/27/blacks-must-confront-reality-n1882887/page/full</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Though racial discrimination exists, it is nowhere near the barrier it once was. The relevant question is: How much of what we see today can be explained by racial discrimination? This is an important question because if we conclude that racial discrimination is the major cause of black...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Indoctrination in White Privilege]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2014/05/28/white-privilege-n1843493/page/full</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What would you think if your 8-year-old came home and told you that "white privilege is something that white people have, meaning they have an advantage in a lot of things and they can get a job more easily"? You would have heard that at the recent 15th annual White Privilege Conference...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Civil Rights Struggle Is Over, and It Is Won]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/08/28/walter_williams_the_civil_rights_struggle_is_over_and_it_is_won.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I think that something that's not spoken of very much is that black Americans have made the greatest gains over some of the highest hurdles in the shortest span of time than any racial group in the history of this world. Why do I say this? Well, if you just add up the income that black...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Betrayal of the Fight for Civil Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/08/07/would-they-be-proud-n1656443/page/full</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rachel Jeantel &amp; the Black Education Tragedy]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/07/10/black-education-tragedy-n1636072</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As if more evidence were needed about the tragedy of black education, Rachel Jeantel, a witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, put a face on it for the nation to see. Some of that evidence unfolded when Zimmerman's defense attorney asked 19-year-old Jeantel to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is Black Unemployment So High?]]></title>
							<link>http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/04/10/black-unemployment-n1561096</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, speaking at The National Press Club, said the nation "would never tolerate white unemployment at 14 and 15 percent." Black unemployment has been double that of white Americans for more than 50 years. The black...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Real Problem Is Cultural Decay, Not Guns]]></title>
							<link>http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-right/021213-644195-cultural-decay-not-guns-is-the-real-problem.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's a story told about a Paris chief of police who was called to a department store to stop a burglary in progress. Upon his arrival, he reconnoitered the situation and ordered his men to surround the entrances of the building next door.When questioned about his actions, he replied...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Obama's Record, Not His Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/black-376212-obama-president.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can California End Flight of Wealth?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/california-374077-people-state.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California was once the land of opportunity, but it is going down the tubes. Several California cities have declared bankruptcy, such as Vallejo, Stockton, Mammoth Lakes and San Bernardino. Others are on the precipice, and that includes Los Angeles, California's largest city....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Dishonesty and Race Hustlers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/04/11/media_dishonesty_and_race_hustlers_113808.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When NBC's "Today" show played the audio of George Zimmerman's call to a Sanford, Fla., police dispatcher about Trayvon Martin, the editors made him appear to be a racist who says: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." What Zimmerman actually said was: "This guy looks...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gross Media Ignorance About the Founders]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/07/05/gross_media_ignorance_about_the_founders_110460.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Walter Williams</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's little that's intelligent or informed about Time magazine editor Richard Stengel's article "One Document, Under Siege" (June 23, 2011). It contains many grossly ignorant statements about our Constitution.If I believed in conspiracies, I'd say Stengel's article is part of a...]]></description>
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