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Walter Edward Williams (born March 31, 1936)

Dr. Walter Williams is an American economist, commentator, and academic. He is the John M. Olin Distinguished professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian views.  Williams's family during childhood consisted of his mother, his sister, and him. His father played no role in raising either child. He grew up in  Philadelphia . The family initially lived in West Philadelphia, moving to North Philadelphia and the Richard Allen  housing projects  when Williams was ten. His neighbors included a young  Bill Cosby . Williams knew many of the individuals that Cosby speaks of from his childhood, including Weird Harold and  Fat Albert . Williams was a talented high school student who displayed a very inconsistent performance in his studies. Following high school, he went to California to live with his father and attend one semester at Los Angeles City College. He later said ...

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante

"In one instance the spread of Africans and Europeans to continents other than Europe and Africa helped to produce a world order that has reigned supreme in technology, science, economics, law, and sociology for five hundred years. It was, however, a racist construction created out of stolen land, broken treaties, stolen labor and broken backs. Any interpretation of the post modern views of the present world has to take into consideration that the entire discourse on the fluidity of cultures, the notion of subjective identities, the instability of social and cultural space, and the interaction and interpenetration of peoples is a direct result of the most massive forced movement of people the world has ever known (Cohen, l982). It becomes impossible to speak of the Americas or Caribbean without Africans or indeed Europe without Africa. One cannot speak intelligently about Portugal and its history without Brazil or without Angola and Mozambique; this is an incredibly interco...