By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org

NEW YORK – A trio of African-American journalists agree: the teacher union-controlled public school system poses a greater threat to the black community than the Ku Klux Klan.

In recent written and broadcast comments, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Juan Williams emphatically state that African-American children are being irreparably harmed by lousy inner-city schools.

MORE NEWS: Know These Before Moving From Cyprus To The UK

“If I were the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and I wanted to sabotage any opportunity for black academic excellence, I could not think of a better means for doing so than the public education system in most of our cities,” said Walter Williams, a writer and economics professor, while guest hosting for Rush Limbaugh’s national radio program.

“Absolutely,” agreed Sowell, an economist and author, according to the Daily Caller. “We’ve reached a point where the Klan can’t do much to stop us (African-Americans) but our ‘friends’ can do a lot to stop us.”

Sowell was clearly referring to the teacher unions and other education apologists who defend the public school status quo. And the statistics back him up.

In a recent op-ed, Fox News analyst and author Juan Williams pointed out “fewer than half of the nation’s black and Hispanic students graduate (high school) on time.”

He also suggested that President Obama’s decision to grant state waivers to No Child Left Behind testing requirements only adds to the problem.

“Because of these waivers, there will be less accountability nationally for teachers, administrators and educational bureaucrats who are failing to educate our kids,” Williams wrote.

MORE NEWS: How to prepare for face-to-face classes

With a problem so severe, what’s the solution?

“The big truth is that education will not improve unless and until people of good will speak out,” Juan Williams wrote in his op-ed. “They need to speak out more loudly, in greater numbers and without concern for the names they will be called or the political retribution from the unions.

“By using their platform on the Rush Limbaugh radio show to speak out, Sowell and Williams put themselves in the front ranks of this generation’s most important civil rights issue: education reform.”