A Voice in the Wilderness In Defense of "Mere Conservatism"

State of “Black Education”

From Dr. Walter E Williams' latest column:

Black people have accepted hare-brained ideas that have made large percentages of black youngsters virtually useless in an increasingly technological economy. This destruction will continue until the day comes when black people are willing to turn their backs on liberals and the education establishment's agenda and confront issues that are both embarrassing and uncomfortable. To a lesser extent, this also applies to whites because the educational performance of many white kids is nothing to write home about; it's just not the disaster that black education is.

Many black students are alien and hostile to the education process. They have parents with little interest in their education. These students not only sabotage the education process, but make schools unsafe as well. These students should not be permitted to destroy the education chances of others. They should be removed or those students who want to learn should be provided with a mechanism to go to another school.

It's understandably difficult for white people to talk about "black" issues, but as Dr. Williams mentioned in his piece, issues of declining education standards and results are color blind.

Here are Williams, Thomas Sowell, and John Stossel making the case for school vouchers: