Columnist's prejudice

It's self-evident from his op-eds: Walter Williams, a man of color, is prejudiced against his own race.

Mr. Williams is an economist. Nothing more. Nothing less. But he engages in a warped and specious use of stats and numbers to belittle the dim history of race relations in this country, to shun the urgent call for social justice in contemporary society, to promote his offensive rhetoric that younger generations of black Americans are not disadvantaged, just lazy, and to deny the existence of white privilege as a socio-economic reality.

Mr. Williams is the same man who, in another of his brazenly ignorant op-eds, decried the demonization of white men during Black History Month.

Yet, I never hear Mr. Williams protesting the never-ending police shootings of unarmed black civilians, nor the shocking rise in hate crimes against minorities in this country.

Which all begs the question, Mr. Williams: Whose side are you on, anyway?

Mike Fanella

Arlington Heights