Thanks for the report. I agree 100 percent — both are great thinkers. After many years of reading Free Republic, I have concluded that Thomas Sowell is probaby THE most respected and admired conservative among FReepers. Says as much for FR as it does for Sowell, who tops my list of wise conservative thinkers.
He's near the top for me too, but I list him (and Williams) among the greats of history, as well.
There's a black college student who works part-time where I work and we sometimes get into interesting discussions (he's a liberal). I once asked him if he ever read any black conservative commentators and he didn't know there were any! He asked me to name ONE! LOL! I started listing Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder, Herman Cain and J.C. Watts. He was incredulous.
What I realised, however, was that if I listed conservative thinkers I admired without regard to race, that black conservatives would be over-represented! I wonder why that is?