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Summary: Love David Horowitz
Review: I first came across David Horowitz when he did an interview with Brian Lamb on CSPAN. Since then, I've bought all his recent books (emphasis on "recent"). I love the way he writes and speaks: clear reasoning advanced in a polemic fashion.
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Summary: This book is long overdue.
Review: Having read this book twice, I believe that "Hating Whitey" should be made part of the curriculum of every middle school in America. I recently retired (early) from the educational system in this country, and I can personally vouch for the fact that white American males are discriminated against in every segment of our "education" industry; both in curriculum and in employment.
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Summary: Sometimes Truth Hurts Before It Sets You Free
Review: Admittedly, in these politically correct times, the very title, "Hating Whitey," makes one grimace, but upon finishing this book it becomes apparant the author is a humanitarian, loves his country, and is brutally honest in his quest to place an imperfect America in perspective as the world leader in the protection of human rights. Hating Whitey, challenges the tiny yet powerful socialist world of high minded special interest liberals, who feel their self serving hidden agendas are beyond scrutiny, debate, or even national security. Whether you agree with the point of view or not, Hating Whitey, has done a gutsy thing, and was written in an honest if idealogical way, in a somewhat forceful leftest style. On its "debate quotient' alone this book should be required reading in all places of higher education. Unfortunately, we live in a time of nanosecond attention spans, and the danger is that, half truths that feel warm and fuzzy are at odds with uncomfortable realities. Unless given thoughtful intellectual attention, Hating Whitey, will be totally misunderstood. Indeed, this humanitarian effort for clarity, democracy, and true integration, deserves our complete attention.
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Summary: Hating Whitey is about the betrayal of the American idea
Review: Hating Whitey is about the betrayal of the American idea by the current leaders of the civil rights movement and the American left. I had great difficulty getting it published (my own publisher rejected it) because of the title. It has met with considerable resistance in the book trade for the same reason. It is a sad commentary on our current cultural climate that one kind of intolerance is acceptable at the same time that others are properly regarded as not. I wrote this book (and gave it this title) to break through the web of hypocrisy and double standards in the hope of restoring some semblance of the civil rights ideal established by the Constitution and implemented by Martin Luther King.
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Summary: Good discussion on race issues, weak in other areas
Review: Hating Whitey is arevealing, personal, and (in the case of bell hooks' essay 'A Killing Rage') even sometimes frightening discussion of the problems we face in race relations. David Horowitz uses common sense, fact, and personal experience to show what we've done right to improve race relations, who we should and should not emulate in this area, and what we are doing terribly, terribly wrong. He makes the case that equal rights for all races has nothing to do with one race liking another, but rather is supposed to deal in equality under the law. More importantly, he shows that when the races are not equal under the law (as in the case of affirmative action, hate crimes laws, and other racial preferences laws) that it is actually a barrier between the races, causing resentment on the one side, and a victimized mentality on the other. He also argues that these racial preference laws are not even good for the races that they are designed to help. These are all important discussions and worth reading. Whether you end up agreeing with Horowitz or not, it will get you thinking.Where in the book Horowitz relies primarily on his personal experiences, especially as relates to his time with the Black Panthers (a very scary organization by Horowitz's account), it is interesting information, though likely delt with better and more thoroughly in his first book, the autobiographical "Radical Son". While I felt there was a lot positive and important in this book, I rated it only three stars, because most of the material that he covers in the second half of the book (the 'other progressive causes'), is covered in too slim a space to be very meaningful. While there is nothing wrong with his material, there are plenty of other books that cover those topics in much more detail. I think his space might have been better used to expound upon the race issues that are the title feature. Doubtless there is more that he could have said.
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Summary: Sometimes Truth Hurts Before It Sets You Free
Review: Admittedly, in these politically correct times, the very title, "Hating Whitey," makes one grimace, but upon finishing this book it becomes apparant the author is a humanitarian, loves his country, and is brutally honest in his quest to place an imperfect America in perspective as the world leader in the protection of human rights. Hating Whitey, challenges the tiny yet powerful socialist world of high minded special interest liberals, who feel their self serving hidden agendas are beyond scrutiny, debate, or even national security. Whether you agree with the point of view or not, Hating Whitey, has done a gutsy thing, and was written in an honest if idealogical way, in a somewhat forceful leftest style. On its "debate quotient' alone this book should be required reading in all places of higher education. Unfortunately, we live in a time of nanosecond attention spans, and the danger is that, half truths that feel warm and fuzzy are at odds with uncomfortable realities. Unless given thoughtful intellectual attention, Hating Whitey, will be totally misunderstood. Indeed, this humanitarian effort for clarity, democracy, and true integration, deserves our complete attention.
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Summary: Good discussion on race issues, weak in other areas
Review: Hating Whitey is arevealing, personal, and (in the case of bell hooks' essay 'A Killing Rage') even sometimes frightening discussion of the problems we face in race relations. David Horowitz uses common sense, fact, and personal experience to show what we've done right to improve race relations, who we should and should not emulate in this area, and what we are doing terribly, terribly wrong. He makes the case that equal rights for all races has nothing to do with one race liking another, but rather is supposed to deal in equality under the law. More importantly, he shows that when the races are not equal under the law (as in the case of affirmative action, hate crimes laws, and other racial preferences laws) that it is actually a barrier between the races, causing resentment on the one side, and a victimized mentality on the other. He also argues that these racial preference laws are not even good for the races that they are designed to help. These are all important discussions and worth reading. Whether you end up agreeing with Horowitz or not, it will get you thinking. Where in the book Horowitz relies primarily on his personal experiences, especially as relates to his time with the Black Panthers (a very scary organization by Horowitz's account), it is interesting information, though likely delt with better and more thoroughly in his first book, the autobiographical "Radical Son". While I felt there was a lot positive and important in this book, I rated it only three stars, because most of the material that he covers in the second half of the book (the 'other progressive causes'), is covered in too slim a space to be very meaningful. While there is nothing wrong with his material, there are plenty of other books that cover those topics in much more detail. I think his space might have been better used to expound upon the race issues that are the title feature. Doubtless there is more that he could have said.
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Summary: Earthshaking.
Review: When I read this book in 2000, it completely changed my life. I was voting Democrat at the time because it was the party of my family, but Hating Whitey was the final straw as I never voted Democrat again. Horowitz takes out a mighty sword and hacks political correctness to pieces. He accomplishes many things in these pages as he points out the folly of reverse racism and President Clinton's mistakes in national security. This is his finest compilation to date although the Anti-Chomsky reader is on my wish list.
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