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Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama!

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Well argued and persuasively written. It is as relevant today as it was when it was originally published. All the injustice and white liberal "benign" racism Lester describes has not been changed in the intervening 40 years. If anything, we have lived long enough to see any positive outcomes of the civil rights movement, whether achieved through peaceful or violent means, undone. If in doubt about this observation, then read Shame of the Nation, by Jonathan Kozol, as a companion to this slim and honest volume. Highly recommended.

I wanted to read this because I thought the title of the book was hilarious and I've always enjoyed reading black nationalist literature. The more radical and extreme the better. So I had high hopes for Look Out Whitey! He writes in a fairly entertaining ranting style, full of parody, satire and sarcasm but this was pretty mediocre as far as stuff like this goes. Overall a disappointment. Its also too dated to be relevant now and judging by a lot of what he wrote and the title he seemed like he wrote this book as a means to thumb his nose at white people more than for any kind of serious black nationalists. Besides who the hell is Julius Lester anyway? I've read my share of stuff by and about black radicals from the 60s and 70s but I have never heard of him.

this book not only reveals the limitations placed on us as blacks in Amerikkka, it also gets youth interested. not unlike John Henrick Clarke's African World Revolution, it isn't a persuasive argument--it shows how there is no doubt we must move up on the oppressor! a quick read, only took me a few days.