There's a really good piece at the Dallas Morning News with Juan Williams discussing his book, "Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America – And What We Can Do About It".
Although, I do not always agree with Williams, he is a reasonable man who argues more from fact than emotion. I plan to buy and read his book which takes people like the "reverends" Jackson and Sharpton to task for failing the legacy of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.
Here's a sample from the interview:
All of these accomplishments! All this kind of stuff goes on, and yet you don't see them celebrating, and pointing out to young black people the examples of successful black people in America. It's as if anyone like a Condoleezza Rice, a Colin Powell, an Alphonso Jackson – all of that is like: "Oh, well, they're mainstream, they're Republican, there's something wrong with them. They're inauthentic because they're successful."
It's just shocking once you step back and look at it. And yet, this whole pig is swallowed by the American media on a daily basis.
Read the article, then you, too, may want to read the book. There's more about it here.
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