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Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
Enough The Phony Leaders DeadEnd Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black Americaand What We Can Do About It
Author: Juan Williams
Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans are in crisis—caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to be parents, and falling to the bottom in twenty-fir...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780307338235
ISBN-10: 0307338231
Publication Date: 8/1/2006
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Crown
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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"Only Nixon could go to China," and only a black man could say what Bill Cosby did. This book begins with the controversial speech Bill Cosby gave to a room full of African Americans gathered together to celebrate those who worked hard and sacrificed much to give blacks equal opportunities in America. Juan Williams (happily, a commentator on NPR and less happily and more recently, a token black face on Fox News) writes about Cosby's speech, the fallout from this speech, and the difficult questions that it raised. As no white commentator could do, Williams challenges the failure of those who would continue to call blacks victims (thus rendering them powerless and unable to pull themselves out of poverty), takes old-guard black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to task, claiming both are more interested in perpetuating their fiefdoms than in advancing the cause of African Americans, and states that middle class black Americans (think of the Huxtables on "The Cosby Show") have more in common with white middle class families than they do with lower class blacks. I recommend reading this book to anyone, but I would especially recommend reading it as a part of a group so that the book can be the genesis for some complex questions about race and racism in America. In the 1960's, my Atlanta parents participated in an inter-racial dialogue group designed to have blacks and whites socialize together in an effort to dispel racism; wouldn't it be great if we had those today? Sadly, 40 years later, we still need them!


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