No Disrespect

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Summary: Whitey is oppressing you?
Review: They agreed to publish and largely distribute one of her books. Most whites in this country will never have such a luxury. Hypocrite. Racist.

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Summary: Must Read
Review: I can't say enough about this book. This book is excellent and affects me everyday. The one thing I enjoyed about this book is Sister Souljah tells the TRUTH about Black America. "Where did we go wrong" is the question I have. She talks about black female empowerment and our responsibility to our community. In fact, this book inspired me to work in my community more. I don't care for all the controversy around this woman, all I know is what this book makes me feel.

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Summary: Insightful
Review: I enjoyed reading about the people in this book. Her view on life in this country as a black woman was not watered down.

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Summary: Who has no clue....maybe you....
Review: IT is very DISTURBING to see the negative reviews of Sister Souljah's No Disrespect. While growing up I developed a sort of disliking to Sister Souljah because I believed that she was a loudmouthed, know-it-all that always had her nose in where it did not belong. Now that I am grown, I decided to put all those feeling to the side to read this book, by recommendation of a friend. And now I totally undertstand her. To all those that had a negative rating, you could not have experienced anything she described in this book. This book was not only educational, but it was a total eye-opener. She gave reasoning behind what some of the raters may say is racist. She is not a racist, she is only speaking through life experience - maybe some of you did not get that in depth into this book. It is obvious that African people have endured centuries of racism and to this day we still do. She only explained some of the reasons why African relationships fail. To the negative readers, it seems as if you would never understand. Hats off to Sister Souljah, she did a great job and I look forward to many more books to come.

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Summary: Further proof that stupidity comes in all colors.
Review: Firstly, I find it startling that Vintage would deign to publish something so poorly written. The semi-literacy of this prose (I'm being generous) does, if nothing else, suggest that Miss Souljah didn't use a ghost writer. The words, in all their ghettofied glory, are hers. Booker T. Washington would have wept. While I can appreciate to some extent this woman's pathological disgust of whites, I cannot understand the roots of her homophobia or anti-Semitism. Her easy-way-out philosophy (Everybody's to Blame Except Me) is the very thing that keeps her where she is.

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Summary: Embarrassing but No Disrespect meant
Review: I was enjoying the author's story but about a quarter of the way through I became embarrassed for her as the author is presenting a racist view point on her story. She is the racist.
This viewpoint is part of the problem that African-Americans cannot escape from; racism against others. Sister Souljah blames white people throughout her book without thinking that it was the early Egyptions that raided the African villages for slaves, not the early Europeans. With her point the finger mentality we, as a nation not just individual races, will not be able to overcome this debilitating disease called racism.
The situations she gets into with people are not only caused by a lack of common sense but embarrassingly phony. If you are that clueless to these types people using you, you need a check up from the neck up. If you want a real story; read Richard Dry's book called Leaving for a true African-American story.

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Summary: Racist and stereotyped
Review: I got about halfway through this idiotic (and extremely poorly written) tripe. Whine, whine, whine. Take some responsibility for yourself. Bigoted, empty, hateful nonsense from a vacuous, race-baiting hack suffering a dearth of originality, an abundance of misguided vitriol, and an excess of hand-wringing and pouting disguised as legitimate literature.

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Summary: A Little Salt in Your Sugar
Review: It's no doubt that Souljah is one of the stronger voices of our generation. Her debut bio "No Disrespect" tells us various stories that influenced her to become the person she is today. I can appreciate this book because, she got what you call "a little salt in her sugar." Because of her massive intelligence, potential and overexerted confidence, she was to blind to use foresight and see that she wasn't immune to heartache and bruised emotions that harsh realities could bring. Little did she know. Souljah goes into intricate detail about her past relationships and friendships with people that affected her life the most. Her stories will blow you away with mouth dropping and lip-curling consequences. I learned a valuable lesson after reading this book, always use foresight in whatever you do. A definate wake up call for those who are sleeping.

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Summary: No Disrespect? - How about "No Clue"
Review: More nonsense about the typical knee jerk, finger pointing, resentment that takes all focus off personal responsibility. Grow up.

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Summary: A must reda!!!!
Review: This book was wonderful. I saw myself in her. This is a must read.