New book by Juan Williams

Many of you probably know of Juan Williams. He's a well known black journalist who regularly appears on many TV and cable show shows and is a correspondent for NPR. He is also known for writing the companion book to the "Eyes on the Prize" TV series (now being aired again on PBS). He's always been pretty left-leaning in his politics--that is until his most recent book called Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America -- and What We Can Do About It. Yes, that's the entire title. In the book he takes a similar position to Cosby's while also flaming the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, and the reparations movement among other leaders and issues. His bottom line is we have been hanging on to an outdated and harmful culture of victimhood. You can hear some of what he has to say about this during his NPR interview. And to keep it interesting, here's a recent LA Times article critiquing Williams and Cosby.
So what do you all think? Is Big Juan selling out or keeping it real?

1 Comments:
Juan Williams' leftness has been in question for a number of years. He regularly hosted Talk of the Nation and DC's morning NPR talk show and his leanings were clear - an Uncle Thomas who you might actually stand to eat dinner with, if you go for that sort of thing. No, he is hardly left, hardly middle of the road. Him and Wharton are peas in a pod.
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