Posted on 08/03/2006 8:34:38 AM PDT by SJackson
NPR and Fox News commentator Juan Williams is a certified liberal – so liberal some have called him the black Alan Colmes, the liberal half of Fox’s Hannity and Colmes. When he writes a book you’d expect the left-wing media to fall all over each other to be the first to review his book and have him as a guest on network radio and TV.
That hasn’t happened, however, because his book Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America - and What We Can Do About It, has crossed the boundary of what is - and what is not - permitted by the high priests of liberal orthodoxy.
For this grievous offense he has been cast into the outer darkness reserved for conservatives and other patriotic Americans.
On my radio show the other night Juan told me how he has been silenced by the very liberals who have always clasped him to their bosoms. When I asked him if he’s been put on the "back burner" he said: “It’s not the back burner, but the burner itself that has disappeared. You just don’t get covered when you try to talk about what I consider to be central issues in terms of not just black America but all America. It’s part of American history, it’s part of the reality of the way we live, especially with increasing numbers of minorities in the American population, racial politics, drop-outs in schools, the fact that people talk about what’s going on with jails and all that.
“People just don’t want to talk about why we are in a grievous situation even now in the 21st century with regard to race and the kind of leadership we have on race.”
This is a tragedy. It is important that Juan Williams be heard loud and clear, and that his book should have the largest readership possible. Like Bill Cosby before him, Juan has looked his fellow blacks in the eye and told them the truth – a truth they must face if they are to overcome the obstacles that hold them back.
He deplores the incredible rate of illegitimate births among blacks – a staggering 70 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock. These children are deprived of a normal upbringing, of a family with the father present in the home.
So-called black leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton draw his scorn. Williams notes: “If you attack anybody who is designated by the white media as a black leader you are therefore attacking black America and blaming the victim and you’re not seeing the larger picture while you have real problems afoot in terms of educating black kids, in terms of watching black kids born out of wedlock into poverty in this country, in terms of watching what I consider a culture of failure where people don’t call to account...violence and sadistic rap music.”
“Nobody says let’s have a march against these drug dealers, let’s have a march against bad schools. You never hear that kind of talk.”
So Juan Williams sets out to tell the truth, writes a book about it, and he can’t get on liberal television, he can’t get on ABC, NBC, or CBS because they have sold out to these leaders of the black community picked by guilt-ridden white liberals. White leftists refuse to allow blacks to be individuals. They look at them only as a group. They have put them on their liberal white plantation where their hand-picked black taskmasters such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton rule the roost.
As Juan Williams has learned, anybody who shines the light of truth on this sordid arrangement will be barred from speaking about it. He is learning that you cannot go against the liberal Left's agenda even if you are a member of the liberal left.
It is said that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. Juan Williams is being mugged. He has important things to say to fellow blacks and to the America he loves. If the left wants to silence him, it’s up to conservatives to give him a platform where he can speak truth to liberal power.
Buy his book and mug a liberal.
I thought that George Bush snuck out of the White House every night and that he and Walmart executives got all those African American teenaged girls pregnant?
It's Must see TV!!
Absolutely.
susie
Good piece. He did an interview with NewsMax, recently.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676575/posts
Because in this instance, he happens to be right.
susie
Juan, Juan, Juan. How many times have you been told that you're welcome in the liberal manor house as long as you're a GOOD boy. There's a limit to how much sass Massah is going to take before he sets the overseer to whippin' ya. Now you just shuffle on up to the porch with your hat in yo' hand and you apologize to the "tolerant" liberal Establishment for pointing out the truth. G'won now. Git steppin'!
Juan is getting what he deserves for supporting hypocrits and then daring to try to step off the Liberal plantation. One reaps what one sows!
Caught just a bit of him on XM radio as I was waking up this morning. I was not sure if I dreamed it or not.
Well, that's a variation on "rightwing shills" but I forgot to mention "race traitor" which is only said by liberal whites, in my experience.
Ohhhh, boy, that makes me angry.
Note to self - post Brit pic
That is priceless. I wonder if he sells such a thing. It's better if you buy it, and you frame it. Buying it is akin to purchasing an indulgence in the middle ages. You weren't forgiven of sin in the Catholic Church of the day unless you also purchased an indulgence.
This is just too much like that, and so dripping with irony.
You have to love Walt.
Are you really the Great Dr.?
"... the presence of a father is a net negative in a child's upbringing?"
I'm not familiar with that study, but even my most liberal sociologist acquaintances now acknowledge the substantial private and social benefits of having a father present in the household.
I feel sorry for the guy. He is a leftie no doubt, but he has been exposed to "other side." It must be hard so see his people (blacks) sold out to one party like a brainless herd...completed addicted to a party which might not even reflect their moral values. The Democraty Party today, is the party of depravity among other wonderful qualities /s
So? Juan accidently stumbled on to a truth and at least had enough sense to recognize it. Dont look for him to change his liberal stripes much however.
Clever and wise. I like it.
Left or right, fail to toe the party line and you'll get cut off at the knees! Welcome to the real world, Juan!
"Juan Williams is no friend to conservatives. "
Juan Williams just received a wake up call.
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