If I were black – and as our late friend Ted Buswell remarked, “If we go back nine generations we’re kin to everyone in the world,” I would be incensed that politicians claimed I was unable to make it on my own.

The implication, of course, is that blacks can’t make it through life without a white savior – meaning in this case a “woke” government ready to make numerous laws benefitting people of color over whites.

Such an attitude goes against the foundation of American government – that all citizens are created equal, at least in the eyes of government.

Of course, we’re not all created equal. I could never make it as a professional athlete. I could never have slamdunked a basketball, even in a million attempts. Seems like every college basketball player today can dunk the basketball, including the point guards.

The late and great Walter E. Williams, whose weekly columns we still miss having for our editorial pages, had some thoughts on racism. Williams, who was black as well as brilliant, penned these thoughts last Aug. 28 prior to his death. The former economics professor at George Mason University in Maryland seemed to think the ideal situation would provide everyone an equal and fair chance.