What's Race Got to Do with It?: Why It's Time to Stop the Stupidest Argument in America Book

Book is dated (refers to America's dad Bill Cosby!) so wish author would do an updated edition but certainly statements that non-Black people could not say without being labeled racist.

People who cry racism seem incapable of distinguishing between equal rights and equal results. Results stem from hard work, focus, education and training, and the assumption of the consequences of one's own actions. Yet racism, say some black leaders with their co-conspiring Democratic Party and liberal media, remains the real roadblock to self improvement.

Victim mentality and crying racism at every opportunity .

"Robinson, MLB's first black manager spoke of Black Hall of Fame first baseman Eddie Murray's older brother Charles who played in the minors in the 60s and quit baseball, emotionally crushed by the segregation he endured and fighting his way up. Robinson: he wasn't strong. He went home. He didn't pursue what he wanted to do in life. He let a barrier prevent him from doing that. If that was the case, then there would have been no blacks in baseball."

Horrible violence, n-word and sexism in rap that isn't called out

Chapter on local government mishandling of Katrina but Bush and racism took the brunt of the blame

Nannie Helen Burroughs booklet in early 1900s that talks about education, self-reliance and hard work.

-Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson even bigger scum bags (totally corrupt, self serving, narcissistic) than I realized. Harry Belafonte not portrayed well and others including Ed Asner, Kanye West, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Mary Blige don't date much better. Criminals like Alcee Hastings (D-Fl) (and Marion Barry) with crimes and impeachments but they effectively convince their constituents that a racist criminal justice system unfairly went after them.

Education seen as white ' Winfrey schools in S Africa i/o America because American kids want sneakers and iPhones; Africans want uniforms for school

Importance of personal responsibility and self reliance

Obama recognizes that "racists do not prevent kids from studying, racists do not demand that men father children outside of wedlock, that the complete and total eradication of racism cannot instill the necessary moral values that create healthy, prosperous communities"