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These leaders have spent decades focusing solely on expanding the welfare state rather than aiming their criticism at poor parenting, bad schools, and high crime rates, the author contends. And Williams is also right when he notes that Sharpton, Barry, and James are all veterans of dubious, racially divisive campaigns...
Williams also forgets to mention another such leader when he points out that James was narrowly reelected in 2002 with Jackson’s strong support. Williams fails to note that the victory was over Cory Booker, a 37-year-old Yale-trained attorney and Rhodes scholar. Booker ran for...
Williams is sloppy yet again when, in discussing structural poverty in New Orleans, he mentions that Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana—states that were among the slowest to integrate—have the highest levels of black poverty. He inexplicably fails to acknowledge any connection between these two facts...
And because Williams’ method is qualitative and his case simple, the book strains to reach 200 pages while staying fresh—the most recurring flaw is the endless repetition, much of which is because Williams quotes Cosby ad nauseum. The first and last chapters are largely dedicated...
Finally, while the central thesis of “Enough” is certainly persuasive, it is not very original. Black intellectuals, like economists Thomas Sowell ’58 and Glenn Loury, have been making Williams’ arguments for years. Even when Williams is clearly right?...