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QueenB Honored Fellow Grover
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Posted: Mon Aug 24th, 2009 03:05 pm |
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Where once we spoke only of racist acts or individuals, Americans have now become accustomed to hearing their country described as a racist society. That view, widely accepted by the media, has produced a mood of cultural despair about the very possibility of racial progress.
Yet despite our obsessive concern with this seemingly permanent problem, there is strikingly little agreement about what racism is, where it comes from, and whether it can be eliminated. Now, bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza undertakes the first comprehensive inquiry into the history, nature, and ultimate meaning of racism.
The End of Racism goes beyond familiar polemics to raise fundamental questions that no one else has asked: Is racial prejudice innate, or is it culturally acquired? Is it peculiar to the West, or is it found in all societies? What is the legacy of slavery, and what does America owe blacks as compensation for it? Did the civil rights movement succeed or fail in its attempt to overcome the legacy of segregation and racism? Is there such a thing as rational discrimination? Can persons of color be racist? Is racism really the most serious problem facing black Americans today, or is it a declining phenomenon? If racism had a beginning, shouldn’t it be possible to envision its end?
In a scrupulous and balanced study, D'Souza shows that racism is a distinctively Western phenomenon, arising at about the time of the first European encounters with non-Western peoples, and he chronicles the political, cultural, and intellectual history of racism as well as the twentieth-century liberal crusade against it.
D'Souza proactively traces the limitations of the civil rights movement to its flaw assumptions about the nature of racism. He argues that the American obsession with race is fueled by a civil rights establishment that has a vested interest in perpetuating black dependency, and he concludes that the generation that marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. may be too committed to the paradigm of racial struggle to see the possibility of progress.
Perhaps, D'Souza suggests, like the Hebrews who were forced to wander in the desert for 40 years, that generation may have to pass away before their descendants can enter the promised land of freedom and equality.
In the meantime, however, many race activists are preaching despair and poisoning the minds of a younger generation which in fact displays far less racial consciousness and bigotry than any other in American history.
The End of Racism summons profound historical, moral, and practical arguments against the civil rights orthodoxy which holds that “race matters” and that therefore we have no choice but to institutionalize race as the basis for identity and public policy.
With Illiberal Education, D'Souza significantly expanded the range of acceptable discourse about race. This book will expand those limits even further, offering a way out of the deadlocked debate about race and setting forth the principles that should guide us in creating a multiracial society.
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Posted: Mon Aug 24th, 2009 04:55 pm |
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I am going to have to check out those books of his at the bookstore.
____________________ "The force and degree of a man's inner benevolence evokes in others a proportionate degree of ill-will" - Gurdjieff
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." — George Orwell
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QueenB Honored Fellow Grover
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Posted: Mon Aug 24th, 2009 05:08 pm |
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*Phil* Opinionated Interventionist

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Posted: Wed Aug 26th, 2009 12:42 am |
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It looks like D'Souza is a winner here in the Grove. I doubt the Whitehouse or The Color of Change will put this book on their must read list. :/
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Posted: Wed Aug 26th, 2009 02:02 am |
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Now we know O is not going to read those books...does he have a speed reader Czar?
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Posted: Wed Aug 26th, 2009 04:04 am |
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QueenB wrote: Now we know O is not going to read those books...does he have a speed reader Czar?
In this day of Spin, PR, and PC you can't trust what they say the President is reading. I know Bush averaged one book a week and Bible study every day. Bush seemed to favor Military History. Obama should be reading "Executive Leadership For Dummies" until he has it down cold, but if that ever got leaked to the press... LOL
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