I have read so many books on the racial gridlock in our nation. Many make good points, but most have one thing in common; as Dr. Yancey points out, they each point to someone else as the problem and therefore leave the person/group pointing frustrated - at the mercy of those "responsible" to solve the problem.
Dr. Yancey does an excellent job of describing the four prevalent views of the racial tension in our nation, along with the strengths and weaknesses of each view. Then he offers a much more helpful perspective that shows how we all are contributing differently to the continuing racial tension and what we can do about it to overcome this racial gridlock.
I highly recommend this book.
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Yancey does a decent job…
Yancey’s call for mutual responsibility is a beautiful endeavor. His explanation of the different ways people define racism clarified many statements by people in my past conversation and argumentation which I had found completely ridiculous in the past. We were speaking past each other. Some of the definitions of racism are truly unreasonable in my estimation, but I now know what I am working with when confronted with these statements and arguments.He fails to make a case for many of his premises, and he even undercuts the major thread he is using throughout the book. He points out how certain ethnic, or sub ethnic minorities (Cuban and East Asian) thrive just as the majority ethnic people (whites). leaving that behind, he goes into structural racism (which hasn’t anything to do with personal racism) as the cause for most ethnic minority ills. On top of that, two years after this book was published Barak Obama was elected President of the United States of America.Many of the ills he speaks of are very real nonetheless. Minority people schools are well bellow in performance on average compared to majority people schools. The majority folks have a better shot at getting good jobs, etc.Some of these issues are certainly traced back to the legalized, actual systemic racism of the past. Minority families are way behind on generational wealth directly in consequence to unjust laws and practices of the past. Most of the ills pointed out in this book are explained by poverty and wealth, and those same ills are present in the lives of poor majority people (white) families.
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