Robert Woodson Sr. Is the founder and President of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE) It emphasizes the importance of self empowerment and self management approaches for ending poverty. Woodson worked for the National Urban League, and he was a research fellow with the American Enterprise Institute before leaving, in 1981, to found NCNE.
Woodson, and the individual essay writers he has gathered here, acknowledge endemic hindrances to Black achievement in the United States. Their main focus, however, is in describing how young Black Americans can use their own personal, real, abilities to raise themselves out of the negative consequences of the generational failure that seems to permeate Black life in the United States.
Simply put, stop thinking of yourself as a “victim”, doomed to failure. You are not! You will only fail if you live your life as a victim, blaming others for your perceived failures. Even with the negative consequences of slavery, and Jim Crow and Segregation, seeing yourself as a “victim”, and blaming fate and others for your position in life, doesn’t make you strong. In fact, it makes you weak. It makes you even more dependent on the “generosity”, the magnanimity, of politicians and “hustlers” who make their living—a very good one, too—promising Black Americans to raise them out of the situation in which they find themselves.
To me, accepting this line of thinking is a fascinating event, because the same people, or their fathers before them, have been promising Black Americans—I’ll call it—salvatio if they only vote, and support, them. This has been going on for over sixty years. Nothing, in all that time, seems to have changed-except the collapse of the Black family and the general failure of Black education. Following that line of thinking, in short, has ended badly.
Anyway, the book’s essays are well thought out, intellectually honest, and are an honest response to the current “salvation” method: Critical Race Theory (CRT). It’s definitely a motivating, worthwhile, read—even though it will, probably, not overcome the current racial grand issue (CRT), it does intelligently describe another way.
But, after all is said and done, I’m a caucasian, so I probably shouldn’t be believed as far as the way out of poverty is concerned. Anyway, read the book.
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A Death Blow to the 1619 Project?
Red, White, and Black, Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers, Robert L. Woodson Sr., Editor, is an excellent well-rounded refutation of the revisionist 1619 Project.I did not know all of the authors of the various essays, so I don't know for sure, but the ones I recognized or who identified themselves as such caused me to believe all are black. This was very helpful, for me a white guy, to get a view of their understanding of both the horrors and continuing results of slavery.As bad as the horrors were, the predominate opinion as I read them is that racism is not systemic in the United States of America. It exists here, as it does in all societies. However, the USA founding fathers, imperfect as they were, built the foundation for a nation built on freedom for all. That freedom is under attack by those who would take this heritage of "liberty for all" from us.This is an excellent book.The writers did not overlook the pain and degradation of slavery, but they, individually and as a group, refused to agree that the worst of our past as a nation is our only defining characteristic.Exceedingly well written by a variety of authors, this book gives a black perspective on America that is often overlooked but is vitally important.Red, White, and Black is a must read for all Americans of every race and political persuasion who want to be fully informed about that too often unreported viewpoint.
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Red, White, and Black, Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers, Robert L. Woodson Sr., Editor, is an excellent well-rounded refutation of the revisionist 1619 Project.
I did not know all of the authors of the various essays, so I don't know for sure, but the ones I recognized or who identified themselves as such caused me to believe all are black. This was very helpful, for me a white guy, to get a view of their understanding of both the horrors and continuing results of slavery.
As bad as the horrors were, the predominate opinion as I read them is that racism is not systemic in the United States of America. It exists here, as it does in all societies. However, the USA founding fathers, imperfect as they were, built the foundation for a nation built on freedom for all. That freedom is under attack by those who would take this heritage of "liberty for all" from us.
This is an excellent book.
The writers did not overlook the pain and degradation of slavery, but they, individually and as a group, refused to agree that the worst of our past as a nation is our only defining characteristic.
Exceedingly well written by a variety of authors, this book gives a black perspective on America that is often overlooked but is vitally important.
Red, White, and Black is a must read for all Americans of every race and political persuasion who want to be fully informed about that too often unreported viewpoint.
I did not know all of the authors of the various essays, so I don't know for sure, but the ones I recognized or who identified themselves as such caused me to believe all are black. This was very helpful, for me a white guy, to get a view of their understanding of both the horrors and continuing results of slavery.
As bad as the horrors were, the predominate opinion as I read them is that racism is not systemic in the United States of America. It exists here, as it does in all societies. However, the USA founding fathers, imperfect as they were, built the foundation for a nation built on freedom for all. That freedom is under attack by those who would take this heritage of "liberty for all" from us.
This is an excellent book.
The writers did not overlook the pain and degradation of slavery, but they, individually and as a group, refused to agree that the worst of our past as a nation is our only defining characteristic.
Exceedingly well written by a variety of authors, this book gives a black perspective on America that is often overlooked but is vitally important.
Red, White, and Black is a must read for all Americans of every race and political persuasion who want to be fully informed about that too often unreported viewpoint.
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