Soccer Mom: Unplugged

Finally, Juan Williams and I agree on something.  Whoda thunk it?

Juan's book Enough reiterates many of the things I saw as young woman raised in a predominantly poor, largely black community.  Many American blacks have failed to prosper in great measure to willingness to hitch their wagons to victimology peddlers and cultural movements that undermine prosperity and stability.  Like steel workers convinced that union bosses have their best interests at heart (eye roll) many folks have been steamrolled by those who claim to speak for them.  Juan Williams is angry about it.  So am I, Juan, so am I.

Publisher's Weekly gives a synopsis:

When Bill Cosby addressed a 50th-anniversary celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, he created a major controversy with seemingly inoffensive counsel ("begin with getting a high school education, not having children until one is twenty-one and married, working hard at any job, and being good parents"). Building from Cosby's speech, NPR/Fox journalist Williams offers his ballast to Cosby's position. Williams starts with the question, "Why are so many black Americans, people born inside the gates of American opportunity, still living as if they were locked out from all America has to offer?" His answers include the debacle of big-city politics under self-serving black politicians; reparations as "a divisive dead-end idea"; the parlous state of city schools "under the alliance between the civil rights leaders and the teachers' unions"; and the transformation of rap from "its willingness to confront establishment and stereotypes" to "America's late-night masturbatory fantasy." A sense of the erosion of "the high moral standing of civil rights" underlies Cosby's anguish and Williams's anger. Politically interested readers of a mildly conservative bent will find this book sheer dynamite. (Aug.)
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WaPo gives slanted analysis (because the WaPos can't admit that progressive ideals have failed American blacks).  Read it at Amazon ;-)

Predictably the Left is railing Mr. Williams, a stalwart supporter of virtually all things liberal, for daring to step out of line and state anything other than the "Fault always lies with Whitey" talking points.  They are calling him the left's Ann Coulter.  And no,  that isn't a compliment...