Authentically Black
by John McWhorter
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Author: John McWhorterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-01-19
ISBN: 1592400469
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Gotham
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Book Review: On Afro-Americans and Asians, Latinos and Gringos ...
Summary: 4 Stars
John H. McWhorter, 37-year-old Afro-American and linguistics Professor, criticizes the image identification of his brothers and sisters with a certain maliciousness, an image as on the one hand constructed by liberal left-wing politics, on the other hand advanced by pop culture . The politics is tightly still too much attached to the no longer quite realistic, melodramatic idea, that the blacks are still the victims (Al Sharpton) in a territory, where still racism subliminally exists. McWhorter denies this. He slaughters a sacred cow, of which many blacks think, though, one still needs her for milking. However John McWhorter thinks that all non-whites, whether Asians, Latinos or Afro-Americans have fair chances at school or at professional areas in the USA at present. Perhaps he overflows (to the joy of some Republicans eternal of yesterday) with such an assertion to the store of the opponents. Perhaps he formulates something which has been already recognized by psychologists as important: take a look at the book of Martin Seligman, "Learned Optimism". A passive victim mentality is dysfunctional, only self consciousness seems saving - and if it is only an individual bridge, at first one makes progress alone (without the populace, following later). McWhorter preaches, that restrictingly is a self-produced whininess, is to bury oneself with gestures of a subculture behavior: Hip Hop is not important and also not important is to wear the cap turned round differently. Of such irrelevant nonsense, please one shall come loose. Black identity may not be equated to the dead end of "reparations payments" (Randall Robinson) or with hip swing acrobatics. One should copy the joy of achieving great things like the Asians practice -- instead of equating himself with the failed eternally. One by the way does not fail. One has gigantic success: Britney Spears or Mariah Carey are pieces of evidence for the imitation rage of the white individuals, which wanted to learn something from the blacks. It would therefore be counterproductive to show itself eternal in the dress of the failed beggar. It would be the reality already, that the most influential Americans would have a black skin color. McWhorter does not think only of Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell (the system critics Howard Zinn despicably counts them as members of the "staff for the rich and powerful"), but he thinks of the Hip Hop music Mogul Russell Simmons (a little illogically). However, nowadays, it therefore would be absurd that (in Hip-Hop-song-lyrics) artists would talk about the discrimination against the blacks. McWorther, who likes to mention, that black men could marry white women nowadays, wishes all his brothers and sisters to have a self-confident basic ego and a little of that self consciousness, which the Latino disparagingly lets speak of the "Gringo"...
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