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Summary: A Remarkable Piece of Work!
Review: Mr. D'Souza has penned a truly profound and elegant piece of scholarship. What is revealed through D'Souza's painstaking and unbiased research is a community -- Black America -- which needs the healing only a true meritocracy (as the U.S. used to be) can provide. Playing the "victim," as the NAACP and like organizations prescribe for the Black community is a recipe for the continued failure of Blacks in America.
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Summary: Racist Polemics Disguised As Scholarship
Review: All this book does is make the case that African Americans are an inferior peoples with an inferior culture -- and then claim that Blacks are the reason why racism exists in American society! What rubbish! Only a Klansman, a right-wing reactionary conservative, or an objectivist would embrace this book! Thankfully, this book and The Bell Curve were the only revisionist tomes in the last seven years that were able to grab media attention by portraying African Americans as inferior and blaming them for racism.
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Summary: Political correctness out the window
Review: I've read this book several times and am amazed how much info is presented and backed up by others. Further, as shown in the book, is that when someone dares speak against the race merchants in the civil rights community, they are branded "racists". Many of these reviews criticize others for praising the book by calling them "racists". They are in need of growing up. I only wish others would tackle this subject from an objective and truth seeking mindset such as Mr. D' Souza has. Great book!!
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Summary: Remarkable Scholarship
Review: Mr. D'Souza's brilliant mind puts the lie to the NAACP and the rest of the Multicultural "Victocrat" industry. Finally, someone dares speak the truth about the Black community, and how little its leaders are doing to heal its real pathologies. A must read!
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Summary: Ugly Racism
Review: It doesn't surprise me that there are racist authors out there willing to pen a book such as this. Nor does it surprise me that there is a publisher willing to profit from sales of a book such as this. What does surprise me is how many people willingly accept such blatent racism as valid scholarship. Flabbergasting.
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Summary: The most provocative and in-depth look at race in the 90's
Review: Mr. D'Souza has written the most detailed account of race that the 90's has seen. We have been conditioned to speek softly about race, and are hesitant to speak the truth about race relations. Whether this book's conclusion is correct or not is a matter of opinion, however I commend Mr. D'Souza for tackling the subject. Racism in this country is something that has to be addressed, but is frequently addressed dishonestly. I personally do not care who solves the race problem in this country, Republican or Democrat or Independent. However, we must solve it and do it in an open forum. Read the book and decide for yourself, even if you don't totally agree with the author, there are still many things to learn from him.
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Summary: Courageous, powerful, and profound to those who value truth
Review: This work is a window into not just the multiculturalists agenda but their tactics. Failure to perform is an environmental constraint rather than a personal challenge. D'Souza is thorough beyond reproach and above all courageous in pursuing the truth in todays PC-environment. Those who still feel that the government can engineer a better world will not like (nor most likely read) this book! A must.
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Summary: Half-baked Ideas
Review: Mr. D'Souza expouses half-truths to formulate is characterization of racism in the U.S. He clearly seeks to appease the establishment who funded his work. He claims the Blacks have a pathological (mental) disposition to acclimate them to violence. If you must read it, my advise is to then use it for fireplace fodder.
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Summary: Thought provoking, very informative
Review: For anyone reading about race relations, affirmative action, or culture for the first time, I urge you to read this book. Many points in this book are not taught in school. Mr. D'souza ignores political correctness and tell it the way it is. Many of the points Mr. D'souza makes many in the civil rights establishment do not want you to hear.
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Summary: Even if you LOVE afimrative action, you should read this
Review: Even if you don't agree with his views, the author certianly provokes thought and debate. For that reason, I think any teacher who wishes to get his or her class talking (in an andvanced high school social studies class or in college)should require this book. People who criticize this book have thus far ignored the main point of it, I believe: that unequal outcomes do NOT equal racism. As a half Latin, half African-American myself, I can tell you with certainty that African-Americans and Latinos do not, in general spend as much time studying as do Christian whites, who in turn do not study as much as Jews or Asian-Americans. Is it surprising then that there are less Black doctors or engineering students, or that American-born Latinos do not score as well on the SAT as Chinese-born immigrant students? The answer for too long has been not to "level the playing field", but to put weights on the feet of the better athletes. Sure, some are born with advantages, but does hobbling all who perform above average to bring up those who didn't practice make it a fair game? And the overwhelming majority of very poor Blacks and Latinos never benefit from affirmative action; only people like myself born of the middle class. Look at UC admissions since they stopped using race as a factor: Black and Latin enrollment are way down at UC Berkeley and UCLA, but down only slightly system-wide. It seems Blacks and Latins are going to slightly less selective schools, but are still getting a good education. If we tell kids that you have to study hard to get ahead, but then reward Jamahl or Jose by letting them into Stanford when there Asian or white friends may have studied harder, what does that say? Living in San Francisco, a city where the local school district puts a CEILING on the number of Chinese Americans who can enter top public high schools because they DO TOO WELL, I can tell you that affirmative action can go to far. Why should a Chinese American, who suffers from racism just like his Black or Latino brethren, and scores better than the majority of Latinos and Blacks admitted to certain schools, be denied admission to those same schools? Because there are too many Asians. Many of the Chinese-born kids score BETTER on ENGLISH tests than Blacks and Latinos (and even some whites) BORN in this country. What does that say? Not that the Chinese are genetically superior or anything, just that they study, study, study. That is plain ridiculous. If I am flying in a jet plane, or getting surgery, or having a case tried in court, I am going to want the best engineer designing my plane, the best doctor cutting me open, and the best lawyer arguing my case. Changing the definition of "best" until a certain number of each ethnic group is in each field is not very comforting. The only problem I have with this book is the Author's tendency to be almost TOO extreme in some cases. His defense of Taxi drivers exhibiting "rational discrimination" for passing Black potential passengers was one example. Having been passed by taxis while in a suit, only to have a white passenger picked up halfway down the block by the same cab, I can tell you it does not strike me as "rational" at all. Also, he completely loses me at the end when he calls for an end to all anti-discrimination laws. He really doesn't justify it in any logical manner. I can see doing so for small businesses, but not large ones. Nonetheless, I believe this book should be required reading for anyone with half a brain. And for balance, people ought to read something like "The Shape of the River".
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