Walter E. Williams Passed Away!

Far-right agitator Walter E. Williams passed away.

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Walter E. Williams was an American economist, commentator and academic. The far-right agitator passed away after suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension. He passed away on Wednesday at the age of 84.

Williams taught economics at George Mason University in Virginia for 40 years and had a nationally syndicated column. 

He died Wednesday, a day after teaching his final class, according to fellow professor Donald J. Boudreaux in the Wall Street Journal.

“Dr. Williams’ body of work was remarkable, prolific and, without question, controversial,” the university said. “His principal scholarly research was devoted to studying the effects on minority groups of markets as well as of government policies, an important and complicated area of study.”

Williams was born in Philadelphia in 1936. He grew up with his mother and sister. Williams had never known his father. The family lived in West Philadelphia before moving to North Philadelphia. 

He grew up in the Richard Allen projects. His neighbors back then were that sexual predator Bill Cosby. He knew the inspirations for Cosby’s Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids animated sitcom.

After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School, Williams moved to California to repair his broken relationship with his father. He would soon get a job as a taxi driver for the Yellow Cab Company. He was drafted into the military and he served as a private for U.S. Army.

Growing up in his younger days he was a progressive. He was pan-African.

“I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a radical who was willing to confront discrimination in ways that I thought it was should be confronted, including perhaps the use of violence. But I really just wanted to be left alone. I thought some laws, like minimum-wage laws, helped poor people and poor Black people and projected workers from exploitation. I thought they were a good thing until I was pressed by professors to look at the evidence.”

Williams would find an educational equal in Thomas Sowell. He never took a class from Sowell but looked upon him as a friend and equal.

He wrote 10 books, including 1982’s “The State Against Blacks,” which was the basis of a PBS documentary, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. 

In his last column, "Blacks of yesteryear and today," Williams wrote about current and past racial tensions in America reflected through his teenage years in a housing project in Northern Philadelphia. 

News of his death prompted words of grief from several prominent Republicans.  

“Walter Williams was legendary,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote. “He was brilliant, incisive, witty, and profound. I grew up reading him, and he was a ferocious defender of free markets and a powerful explainer of the virtues of Liberty."

Very sad news. Walter Williams was legendary. He was brilliant, incisive, witty, and profound. I grew up reading him, and he was a ferocious defender of free markets and a powerful explainer of the virtues of Liberty. https://t.co/DrwZo5yxqR

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 2, 2020

Fox News' Mark Levin called Williams’ death a “punch in the gut.”  He said Williams’ had an “enormous” influence on him from the time he was a child.

This documentary of the great Walter Williams is worth every minute of watching.https://t.co/AkCh5TgoyP

— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 2, 2020

President of the Heritage Foundation Kay C. James called Williams “a good friend and one of the world's most brilliant economists. … Truly a great loss for America.”

“I first met Walter Williams when I was 17,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), tweeted. “I’ll never forget his speech about conservation, that there is rarely a shortage of things privately owned! RIP to a brilliant and important voice for Liberty.”

I first met Walter Williams when I was 17. I’ll never forget his speech about conservation, that there is rarely a shortage of things privately owned!

RIP to a brilliant and important voice for Liberty. pic.twitter.com/oD7VSEo1b9

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 3, 2020

Walter leaves behind a daughter named Devyn. His wife, Connie Williams passed away in 2007. 

He was the cousin of Julius Erving aka Dr. J.

Williams has written for the American Economic Review, Policy Review, Journal Labor Research as well as notable publications like The American Spectator, Newsweek, Reason and The Wall Street Journal.

On some occasions, he would be a guest host for that old fart Rush Limbaugh.