Juan Williams Defends Rice, Blasts Liberal Hatred for Black Conservatives



Fox News’ liberal commentator Juan Williams came to the defense of Condoleezza Rice this week when the Rutgers faculty council determined that she wasn’t qualified to give the commencement address to the university’s graduating seniors and receive an honorary degree.

Williams highlights the absurdity of the council’s ruling that she lacks the “moral authority” and does not meet their definition of “exemplary citizenship,” citing her remarkable achievements—not least of which is being the first African American woman to hold the posts of National Security Adviser and Secretary of State. 

As Williams points out, though Rice holds a PhD in political science, taught college for decades, was Provost of Stanford University, and exemplifies what the left supposedly champions—a minority working her way up to one of the highest offices in the country—“according to the Rutgers faculty council, all of that is negated by her service in President George W. Bush’s administration.”

Williams uses the incident to highlight the “staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals.”

Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don’t fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America.

Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

I’ve experienced some of this vitriol firsthand when I have veered by liberal orthodoxy. I wrote about it in my book “Muzzled – the Assault on Honest Debate.”

This shunning of Rice is especially troubling coming from a great American university. This is the place where debate and dissenting views are to be valued as sacred.