“S. B. Fuller, a man who should be a hero to many, black and white alike, rose to robust entrepreneurial success at a time when Jim Crow racism was much worse than it has ever been in my lifetime. I’d like to believe that if Fuller can become a ‘Master of Enterprise,’ the racism of today’s America isn’t quite the problem some would claim. However, the history of black people in the U.S. is difficult, long, and complex; I would not presume to simplify it via that one example. Even if covert racism, hell-bent on maintaining the position of the white race, is still virulent, there is but one way to meet it: head-on and, for goodness sake, not with the ‘help’ of the Nanny State. History has proven time and again — from Montgomery, Alabama, where the police and mayor used their state-provided authority to facilitate the ability of the bus company to hang on despite the boycott, up to the present day, when the Prison Industrial Complex, financed with stolen (tax) revenue, is based almost totally upon free labor extracted from predominantly black men convicted of non-violent drug offenses — that the State is exactly the wrong place to look for help.” (07/25/08)