White Racism: The Basics

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Summary: A compelling look at Racism within the country
Review: After reading some of the reviews, and finishing this excellent study, it is apparent that the message of this book did not come across to some. Feagin is not picking on "white" (European Americans) people, he is merely pointing out the inequalities that exist within the United States. This book is thorough in proving the experiences of people of color and of European Americans are extremely different. Feagin found police brutality, for example, occurred increasingly more for people of color than for European Americans. African Americans experience harassment far more than European Americans, and the cases Feagin uses illustrates this fact. Also, the recent debate of affirmative action is also covered well in this book.

"Reverse racism" as many would like to claim Feagin is guilty of, is not real. People of color cannot be racists because racism is linked to power. People of color can be bigots, but since power in this country is held by European Americans, as Feagin points out in many of his chapters, people of color cannot act on their hatred or resentment. Since European Americans are found in government, police forces, Fortune 500 companies, and other vessels of power, "white" interests are protected.

As one can see, this book causes the reader to think. Even though you might not agree with Feagin's conclusions, it causes us to examine a social ill that has been with this country since its founding. I will not only answer questions, but help raise critical questions about ethnic relations in this country.

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Summary: Racist Garbage
Review: If the Author wanted to speak out against racism, then why not speak about racism in GENERAL and overall look at racism from all races, instead of assuming that only whites have power in the entire world therefor only whites can be racist.... What about China, Japan, South Africa, South America, etc.. where whites hold NO power at all and are discriminated against ten times more than non-whites in the U.S.?

The fact remains that the Author of this book obviously holds anti-white beliefs in the topic of race. If you are looking for a study on racism, reading this book is equivalent to reading a book written by the KKK or the Black Panther Party. It is one-sided and bias.

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Summary: Language was a prime factor in the murder of Jews
Review: Racism exists, yes, but titling a book "White Racism: The Basics" is downright reprehensible as well as racist. The author could teach that SOME people of DIFFERENT races have been and are extremely xenophobic, but to just pick on whites is irresponsible. The West actually led the charge to ABOLISH slavery, lest we forget in the midst of all of the attention paid to a relatively small number of truly fringe people, like the neo-Nazis in America. Fortunately, these people are not huge in terms of numbers, and that is a good thing, but the way some Leftists whine about it, you'd think they were just about ready to take over the whole world, all...well, however few of them there are.

Xenophobia is NOT unique to "white" people, and there have been conflicts over not only race, but also over social and economic classes! Please read "Death by Government" by R.J. Rummel, Professor Emeritus of the University of Hawaii, for a good look at the numbers of people killed due to government "democide" sometime. Look at how many people the communists slaughtered sometime.

While it is clear that there are racists who are white in this country, the book's focus on only "White Racism: The Basics," comes off as downright racist. It is just as bad as Kevin MacDonald singling out the Jews in his book "Culture of Critique." And look at the flap THAT book caused!

Shame on the author. This type of thing will probably lead to the murder of white people in retaliation for past injustice during the time of slavery in America if this type of narrow-focus teaching on only "white racism" keeps up. Racism should not be off limits for study, but it should apply equally to everyone, not just "white" people. Will the author be writing a book about how Mugabe seized land from white farmers? That is racism, yet if someone titled a book "Black Racism: The Basics," there would be total outrage.

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Summary: Racist Garbage
Review: The authors speak of real problems, but address them ineffectively. By peddling generalizations of the white race, they perpetuate the victim/victimizer dichotomy which divides instead of uniting. Further, the boundary between victim and victimizer is drawn rigidly along racial lines. They fail to recognize that any progress has been made in the decades since the civil war toward a more loving, color blind society. This truly dishonors the memory of those whose blood and tears watered the garden from which African Americans now harvest financial and educational opportunities as well as self worth. A better discussion, in my opinion, can be found in Joel Kovel's book by the same title.