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Summary: An Inconsistent and Deeply Flawed Book
Review: This is an inconsistent book. In the author's introduction, Dickerson says that she aims at making the case that blacks should get away from obsessing over past grievances such as slavery and Jim Crow and take full responsibility for the choices that they make and accept the consequences. In other words, blacks should stop blaming white folks for everything that goes wrong. She then turns around and spends the first half or so of the book blaming whites for the state of black America. She presents horror stories of racism, such as the murder of Emmett Till, just as if she believes that they represent the state of race relations today. Indeed, she expends much verbiage on whites and on how they pretend to support civil rights while secretly doing everything that they can to undermine those same civil rights. Dickerson seems to have some racist tendencies of her own. She seems to resent the fact that Asian Americans generally live in mostly white, middle-class communities as opposed to having their own ethnic enclaves. Dickerson also has some weird ideas on how prevalent racism supposedly is in America. For instance,Dickerson complains about the fact that the movie "Saving Private Ryan" does not include black soldiers storming the Normandy Beach. However, she admits that no blacks participated in the D-Day invasion. Yet, she criticizes the producers for excluding a black presence in the film anyways. After her carnival of criticism of whites and Asians for their alleged role in keeping blacks down, she then gets into the second half of her book, which is a critique of blacks in modern America. In this part, she criticizes blacks for dwelling on the racist past and using racism as a crutch for blacks not making it in America. By doing so, she completely contradicts the first half of her book. This is an inconsistent and contradictory book on race relations in America. Definitely not recommended.
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Summary: Its a good book
Review: To some of you black people who reviewed her book I would like to know how you are a sell out just because you marry a white man. Have you people been listening too much to that fascist Louis Farrakhan? Hitler said that Germans can only marry Germans some of you people sound a lot like him. The book was really good but I also recommend William Wilson books for a deeper analyse of the problems of black America.
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Summary: laugh it up, we all have to eat
Review: Wow, I bought the book because it looked interesting regardless of the ideological slant. I read it and decided to return it and get my money back, for while I'm an ivy-league educated academic also, I just don't have the level of dishonesty required to land a book deal such as this. The negative responses I read here are very puzzling, especially from black male readers who are put off by Ms Dickerson's choice of spouse. A woman is afterall entitled to marry whomever she wants and I guess black women should be allowed the choice of marrying non-black men in the same way black men are allowed to marry whomever they want. The huffing and puffing misses a greater problem with the book which is, there's no organizing thesis. It's impossible to read. Quite a jumble. Then there's the section on internet ghetto jokes...hence my surprise at the negative responses here. I thought everyone had figured it out as I did when I returned the book to the bookstore....Ms Dickerson was writing for laughs.
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Summary: Debra Dickerson's fan club -- a racial continental divide!
Review: Yo! Debra Dickerson "Makes white people feel good" is right! (Ref.: Anderson, January 20, and "reader", February 1, review below.) Look at Dickerson's white fan club below! Including the one from Los Angeles POSING as a black person (January 19). And TWENTY-ONE white friends in his white club really LOVED it too! (Don't you guys think that you made yourself a little too heavy-handed and obvious, spamming positive book review votes for Dickerson? And, negatively, counterspamming book review votes against black reveiwers, some very well written or incisively pithy.) The identifiably white reviewers ALL gave Dickerson FIVE stars. The identifiably black reviewers ALL gave Dickerson ONE star (only because ZERO stars wasn't available, I'm sure). I think that says more about the racial divide and state of affairs in this country than Dickerson ever could. I just hope that it's not really that hopeless. I read her book. (Okay, after the first few chapters, I only skimmed the rest, although thoroughly, because it was BORING me to death with its, basically, anecdotal repetition, rather than any real analysis.) I guess that the obviously moral and intellectually deeper white reviewers are over there giving Randall Robinson's newest book, "Quitting America", a good read and great reviews (except for the Russian-Khazak guy below or someone like him). See the February 3rd and January 30th Amazon.com white reviews on that webpage: There might be hope for our country after all! Maybe.
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