One of my favorite writers, Thomas Sowell, who is brilliant and who also happens to be black, defends free speech. He shows the terrible things that have happened to black citizens because people are afraid to tell the truth. This is an important article by an important black thinker. Thomas Sowell: Racial censorship: "It is one of the sad signs of our times that a furor was created because Rush Limbaugh expressed an opinion as to why a particular quarterback seemed to him to be over-rated. In his view, it was because the powers that be in professional football were anxious to have a star quarterback who was black."