Excerpt from Woodson’s WSJ piece - “...left­ist elites teach their own chil­dren the val­ues of work­ing and study­ing hard even as they en­cour­age be­hav­ior among blacks that will make sure they re­main un­com­pet­i­tive but “au­then­tic.” By the time young blacks to­day dis­cover, as did the slaves of Dou­glass’s time, that free­dom un­der­stood as “do what­ever you feel like” is no way to build a worth­while life, it will be too late.