The Black Libertarian

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Why Be a Libertarian: Intro

Monday, May 6, 2013

Walter E. Williams: Government, The Market, and Minorities

Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is a well-known columnist and the author of South Africa's War Against Capitalism (1989) and The State Against Blacks (1982).

In this video, Williams speaks at a Libertarian International conference in Stockholm, Sweden in 1986 on how governments interact with minorities. He covers everything from prejudice and discrimination to segregation, equal pay for women, and "subsidized preference indulgence." He also answers audience questions about investment, foreign policy, immigration, welfare, and many other topics.

Download the .mp3 version of this lecture here: http://bit.ly/RCz47l

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

What is Bitcoin?

A look at what Bitcoin is, the rise of it, and acceptability over the criminals in the central banks defrauding people. Recorded from BBC Newsnight, 26 March 2013.

Dr. Anne Wortham - No He Can’t

Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America.

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy.

There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival – all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America. Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century.

I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them. I would have to be wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

"Top Libertarian Songs"

Taweh D. Beysolow, II - Libertarians and Conservatives Clash in GOP Identity Crisis

Fed policy has only encouraged people to incur more debt by taking out more loans, caused a massive inflation of the money supply, and the bad debt that otherwise would have been liquidated has instead been largely bought by the federal reserve. This bad policy feeds back into other parts of the economy.

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A Minority Viewpoint with Libertarian Jabriel Ballentine

Jabriel Ballentine abandons the DC Republican Party to pursue libertarian solutions to the problems in the beltway. Libertarian Party member Melissa Dawson interviews Mr. Ballentine about racial politics in the age of Obama, and what freedom means.

Foreign Aid: A noble act of non-creative destruction

While the idea of providing monetary and financial incentives to facilitate the economic growth of undeveloped regions seems noble, there are distinct fallacies and unplanned destructive effects from that proposal.

Many Africans regard governmental aid as a means of promoting cultural erosion through enforced programs, as well as an underhanded means of unscrupulous conditional exchange for the sovereign natural resource wealth of recipient countries.