Walter Williams on Obama

In a column published today in the Orange County Register, Walter Williams says America's first black president ought to be as capable a politician as Jackie Robinson, America's first black big league baseball player, was a baseball player -- and Barack Obama isn't that good. He goes on to say, indirectly, that blacks are their own worst enemies. He argues that blacks are not being held back by white racism but by illegitimacy, ignorance and criminality. These are problems only blacks can solve, he suggests.

Whether blacks need a better black president than whites need a white one is debatable. The rest of what he says is surely true.