21 Replies to “Walter Williams, 1936 – 2020”

  2. He had such a great sense of humor. His ideas on gift giving for birthdays and Christmas were hilarious. A wonderful, sweet and smart man.

  3. A pragmatic mind with a moral compass like that belonging to Walter Williams will be sorely missed.

  4. One thing he missed was all these self imposed laws and regulations that make generating work and jobs impossible unless you have some special status or privileges to getting exemptions or above the laws imposed.
    I would agree that I don’t need your money or want your money when I am making my own. If laws imposed make that impossible, then I would like to be compensated by governments imposing these laws. I do not want money from other citizens as we are all imposed by the same laws.

    But, this is NOT our current system.

  5. The content of his character was STELLAR!

    OK leftists … twist THAT statement into a “racist” taunt

    2. +++Kenji. I have sadness in my heart and that is difficult with that hardened pump.

    3. “The content of his character was STELLAR!

      OK leftists … twist THAT statement into a “racist” taunt.”

      Here ya go:

      “One of those racists said he should have been locked in a CELLAR”. How’s that? Stay tuned.

  8. Walter Williams is the sort of man who is rare as hen’s teeth in black America, never mind sub-Saharan Africa.

    That’s black America’s problem in a nutshell. In the “community,” men like Williams who value liberty and self-reliance are pariahs. Whitey-baiters and Jew-haters like Louis Farrakhan are heroes.

    Until that changes, black Americans will never be anything but trouble to their long-suffering white neighbours.

    1. Shove your racism where the sun don’t shine. I was a fan because of reading his wisdom long before I saw a picture of him.

      Men of his applied wisdom are rare. Unfortunately, bigotry like yours (I know one thing about him, that’s all I need tot know) is all too common.

  9. A good man died.
    That is sad.
    Think though of all he put down on paper, on tape, on consciousness of good people.
    That is not lost.
    It will help thoughtful people to struggle along.

  10. Great columns in the Toronto Sun over the years. Put him up there with Thomas Sowell. RIP Walter.

  11. I am surprised at the number of people who knew about Walter. I first heard him when he guest hosted for Rush Limbaugh many years ago. I was so impressed with what he talked about that I got his email address and thanked him for his wisdom. He responded thanking me for dropping him such a kind note. Later I discovered he was black. That made me admire him even more for the fortitude it took to speak out as he did. We corresponded a few more times whenever I read one of his outstanding pieces.

    I am truly saddened by his passing. His wisdom will live forever.

  12. had not heard of the gentle man till recently, and considered to read some of his woks, now I know I will do that for sure. RIP Walter

  13. Aw nuts. He was a good one. I’ve been a Rush Limbaugh member for about a decade, and one of my prized and most re-listened too recordings is Walter E. Williams guest hosting, and interviewing his friend Thomas Sowell.

    The average IQ of the world just dropped a little.

  14. I was first introduced to Dr. Walter Williams on the Rush Limbaugh show where he sometimes guest hosted. This is a sad day for liberty.

  16. Dr Williams was a refreshing voice in the wilderness world of economists steeped in the Keynesian school of economics where the only solution to an economic problem was government intervention. He believed in the writings of Ludwig von Mises and expounded often on the monetary theories of Dr Milton Friedman of the Chicago School of Economics, whose faculty rejected and opposed Maynard Keynes’ theories in favour of more classical laissez-faire approach. Incidentally, Dr Thomas Sowell was both a student of Dr Friedman at the University of Chicago and a friend of Dr Williams when both were at UCLA in the late sixties.
    Dr Williams wrote countless articles on consumptive free market economics and monetarism over the years through The American Spectator, Wall Street Journal and Reason Magazine.
    RIP Dr Williams, your voice will be missed.

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