In today's Washington Post, Manhattan Institute fellow John McWhorter offers an alternative view of the controversy prompted by Andrew Young's recent statement about the ownership of mom—and—pop stores in black urban areas. 'In Defense of Andrew Young' begins: Andrew Young unwittingly ended his brief tenure as Wal—Mart's ambassador to U.S. cities this month with his remarks about the nation's urban mom and pop shops: "Those are the people who have been overcharging us —— selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables," he told the Los Angeles Sentinel, an African American weekly. "First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs," he added. "Very few black folks own these stores." Young was hammered so quickly in the national media —— the Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page even suggested that he qualified for a Mel Gibson Sensitivity Prize —— that he immediately stepped down from Wal—Mart and issued mea...(Read Full Post)