Columnist's concern is his own bottom line

At first I was surprised at the depth of the racist stereotyping in Armstrong Williams' column "A virus before the virus," but then again, not so much. Oddly, Williams, an African-American, has used this technique to amass great wealth and become a darling of right-wing media.

I would never accuse him of being stupid; he checks all the necessary boxes: less regulation, lower taxes on corporations, overturn Obamacare, reduce immigration, shady financial transactions with Sinclair Broadcasting. He proves in his column that you don't have to be white to believe that all school kids that cause trouble come from one-parent families where Mom doesn't help the kids with their schoolwork in their filthy "pigsty" of a home because she's strung out on drugs.

Does he mention the vicious cycle so many of the poor in this country find themselves in, how the deck is stacked or does he mention income inequality that continues to grow year by year? Does he mention how the coronavirus is disproportionately killing poor people, blacks and Hispanics because they can't afford health insurance? Of course not. When you're on the plus side of $200 million net worth and adding to that incrementally every year and you need to keep your readers buying your monthly newsletter, it's better to blame the government for the safety net it has provided for those expecting "a lifetime handout." If Congress would only cut the bottom out of that net, everyone would soon pull themselves up by their bootstraps. And it wouldn't hurt his bottom line either, which, in the end, is all he really cares about. Give him credit. He found out how to make it and he know what he has to do to keep it.

Tom Dillivan

Schaumburg