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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2011
“Heirs of the Wizard” is a rather shallow attempt to dismiss the contributions of Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, and Shelby Steele to issues surrounding race. Clarence E. Walker's misunderstanding of issues discussed by Sowell and Williams is captured by his phrase “practices that raise questions about Williams's faith in the market.” Speaking for myself, and probably Sowell, it is not a faith in the market as much as evidence about the market upon which we rely.
1. Market is being used in the broadest sense, meaning peaceable voluntary exchange among individuals.
2. See Williams, Walter E., The State Against Blacks (New York, 1982), 38Google Scholar, Table 3.
3. See Williams, Walter E., South Africa's War Against Capitalism (New York, 1989), 73Google Scholar. There are numerous citations throughout showing how wage laws have been used for the explicit purposes of protecting white workers from competition with black workers.
4. U.S. Congress, House, Congressional Record 71st Cong., 3d sess., 1931, p. 6513.