Reviews for The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome: The Dead End of Black Politics

The average rating for The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome: The Dead End of Black Politics based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-04-03 00:00:00 Daniel Barszcz Good book that says that Blacks needs to move away from the symbolic politics tied to the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and toward more accountable political efforts that involve building local movements and the use of strategic non-voting for Democratic party politicians who have failed to deliver for Black constituents. Advocates the use of issues such as education that have strong importance to Black voters, especially poorer Black voters, and that the Democratic party and Black elected officals have largely ignored. Author makes strong and impassioned arguments and the book is worth a read.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-06-29 00:00:00 Michael Huxley A ruthless and well-needed take-down of the phony political, social and intellectual "leaders" of contemporary Black America. Since this book was written over 10 years ago, an update is urgently needed. Farrakhan has since aligned himself with the Scientologists. Barack Obama has done precious little to alleviate age-old grievances in the black community. Afro-American culture, with precious few exceptions, has continued to slide further down the toilet. A new bumper-crop of even more worthless, manipulative and deranged black demagogues from both the far-right (Sheriff Clarke, Dr. Ben Carson and Jesse Lee Petersen) as well as the alleged far-left (Dr. Umar Johnson and the rest of the Hotep bunch) has emerged in the past 5 years, and has done nothing for Black America except add to the already hopeless confusion that we've been drowning in for decades.