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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: If you read Pick a Better Country with an open mind, I think you would have to agree with a lot of what Mr. Hamblin says, but if you don�t have open, you would probably call him an Uncle Tom. Mr. Hamblin opinion is that people should stop complaining so much, and realize that anyone can make it in this country, if they really try. My only problem with the book is that I think he tone was a bit harsh when referring to black people who live in the ghetto, other than that, I through the book brought out a lot of good points.
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Summary: Outrageous
Review: Ken Hamblin came up the hard way and has little sympathy or patience for anybody who is a practicing member of the cult of victimology. I promise you that your mouth will fall open at least once on each chapter because you will be shocked. Mr. Hamblin says what others only whisper in the privacy of their own homes. The book is harsh, but ultimately hopeful. It's funny in places and tragic in others. It's a well written manifesto of Mr. Hamblin's veiws. He's not trying to convice anyone of anything he simply lays it all out and tells the reader to take it or leave it.
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Summary: Talk about personal achievement !!!
Review: Ken Hamblin has taken away all excuses for minorities not succeeding. He proves it daily on his radio-show and now tells it in his life story. Ken tells you and all of you that it can be done, no matter what color your skin is or what the "Poverty Pimps" tell you
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Summary: This should be a must-read textbook for inner-city schools
Review: Ken Hamblin is a first generation,self-made American. He does not use hyphens or letters to descibe himself. Instead,he calls himself colored or negro. In his book he illustrates the disservice done by liberals to blacks and other minorities in America. He points out the fact that the liberal's patrinization of minorities has done more harm than good because it fails to allow an individual to accept responsibility for their own actions. Ken Hamblin uses examples from his own experiences as a journalist. He also cites personal observations while traveling across America on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle and in his airplane, of what he sees going on around him. Witty and at the same time hardhitting, he exposes the on-going liberal hypocrisy and how it rewards laziness,while simultaneously condemning achievement. He offers simple, easy to adopt solutions to this problem. He also prints comments from listeners of his syndicated radio program. America still works, the dream is still alive. The viewpoints are an American view. Very real, very informative, and very entertaining.
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Summary: The Black Avenger Saves the Day
Review: Ken Hamblin's story of his plight as an inner-city youth, his tour in the Army and the success his "bootstrap" mentality earned him is truly inspring. Pick A Better Country is filled with Hamblin's passion, provacative wit and insight gained by overcoming many obstacles to live the American dream. Hamblin insists that America is the best country in the history of civilization for anyone who is willing to seize this country's opportunities and commit to the traditional values of right and wrong. An educational and entertaining read.
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Summary: The Black Avenger Saves the Day
Review: Ken Hamblin's story of his plight as an inner-city youth, his tour in the Army and the success his "bootstrap" mentality earned him is truly inspring. Pick A Better Country is filled with Hamblin's passion, provacative wit and insight gained by overcoming many obstacles to live the American dream. Hamblin insists that America is the best country in the history of civilization for anyone who is willing to seize this country's opportunities and commit to the traditional values of right and wrong. An educational and entertaining read.
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Summary: The best book to instill patriatisim into anyone
Review: Ken talks about his feelings on the amarican dream and what is ruining it. He uses terms like brood mares, black trash, poverty pimps, and quota blacks. He really is the unassuming coolerd guy
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Mr. Hamblin is DEFINITELY making liberals uncomfortable with his hard-hitting book. I only hope that the "open-minded" will give this tome a thoughtful reading and question themeselves that they may just be wrong and Mr. Hamblin is right. A must-read regardless of your political affiliation.
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Summary: A narrowminded colored guy speaks with no mind
Review: Reading Ken hamblin book gives me more reasons to stay away from conservatism. This is another book with false, hateful and narrow minded views.Hamblin did not write this book with an interest in any facts, he writes without respect or knowledge of what really goes on in the black community. He also uses the sterotypes used by conservative and racist whites. And this is something he does on purpose to distance himself from being black and just being a American. He pratices throughtout the book racial highlighting where he finds the worst about blacks [The 1994 chicago incident where six women and one male were charged with child neglect of a total of nineteen children] and uses this incident to label all low income black people black trash. Organized crime and crimes, in general, by whites is not mentioned, but black crime is pointed out to accused the black community of a lack of American and moral values. As a member of the black community what we did not need is another one dimensional book that blames social, racial, and economic problems not on their real causes, but on liberalism and so-called liberal programs. This is where hamblin show his ignorance with this book. My Question is What liberals and liberal programs is he talking about that is the cause of all this troble? And finally I question the sincerity of the author. Ken hamblin praises david duke for renouncing racism while duke showed support for prop. 209. In truth duke has not renounced anything. He still host his own racist page, and has one on stormfront, the neo-nazi webpage, run by don black who was a lieutenant in duke racist organization. And hamblin host the Council of Conservative Citizens on his own web page. A organization listed as a hate group by the ADL. I still think this book is worth a read just to show how the fantasied and narrow beliefs of the conservative world still haven't caught up to modern society. But the book itself lacks facts, is insulting to a whole race of people and shows both the ignorance and arrogance of the author with a strong, moral view of America that was never true according to its own history, which included violence and racism. Robert Butler
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Summary: A narrowminded colored guy speaks with no mind
Review: Reading Ken hamblin book gives me more reasons to stay away from conservatism. This is another book with false, hateful and narrow minded views. Hamblin did not write this book with an interest in any facts, he writes without respect or knowledge of what really goes on in the black community. He also uses the sterotypes used by conservative and racist whites. And this is something he does on purpose to distance himself from being black and just being a American. He pratices throughtout the book racial highlighting where he finds the worst about blacks [The 1994 chicago incident where six women and one male were charged with child neglect of a total of nineteen children] and uses this incident to label all low income black people black trash. Organized crime and crimes, in general, by whites is not mentioned, but black crime is pointed out to accused the black community of a lack of American and moral values. As a member of the black community what we did not need is another one dimensional book that blames social, racial, and economic problems not on their real causes, but on liberalism and so-called liberal programs. This is where hamblin show his ignorance with this book. My Question is What liberals and liberal programs is he talking about that is the cause of all this troble? And finally I question the sincerity of the author. Ken hamblin praises david duke for renouncing racism while duke showed support for prop. 209. In truth duke has not renounced anything. He still host his own racist page, and has one on stormfront, the neo-nazi webpage, run by don black who was a lieutenant in duke racist organization. And hamblin host the Council of Conservative Citizens on his own web page. A organization listed as a hate group by the ADL. I still think this book is worth a read just to show how the fantasied and narrow beliefs of the conservative world still haven't caught up to modern society. But the book itself lacks facts, is insulting to a whole race of people and shows both the ignorance and arrogance of the author with a strong, moral view of America that was never true according to its own history, which included violence and racism. Robert Butler
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