# Walter Williams on Minorities and Unemployment **URL:** **By** Walter E. Williams **Published:** July 13, 1984 --- Williams explains how the state gets in the way of minorities finding gainful employment through occupational licensing restrictions. Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is a well-known columnist and the author of _South Africa's War Against Capitalism_ (1989), _The State Against Blacks_ (1982), _Do the Right Thing: The People's Economist Speaks_ (1995), and _More Liberty Means Less Government_ (1999). In this video from a 1984 Libertarian International conference, Williams explains how the state gets in the way of minorities finding gainful employment through occupational licensing restrictions and other discriminatory laws.