ABSTRACT
Walter Williams was born in 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Williams is author of numerous publications and is a prolific writer. Williams serves on several boards of directors, including Citizens for a Sound Economy, Reagan Foundation and the Hoover Institution. He serves on advisory boards of Landmark Legal Foundation, Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, Cato Institute and others. In the new classicist view, Williams champions the free enterprise system, noting that government regulation in many instances prohibits blacks from access to the same opportunities as others. Williams makes some excellent observations concerning the plight of blacks in the United States. His arguments about the role of government, deterioration of the black community, affirmative action, public education, and the nomenclature of 'African-American'. Affirmative action programs are not necessarily unequal treatment, they simply make the playing field even. They are designed to correct some of the injustices done by the government.
