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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!krb104
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 06:57:38 EST
- From: <KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92328.065738KRB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination
- Subject: Re: Book
- References: <1ep673INN9ca@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1ep673INN9ca@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ab269@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John
- Laws) says:
- >
- >Anybody who wants to be informed on the subject of race relations
- > and racism should pick up a copy of the new book, Paved With
- > Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary
- > America by Jared Taylor. It is published by Carroll and Graf, 260
- >Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10001.
- >This book is long overdue. It clearly shows that white racism is
- > simply an excuse for black failures and lack of taking responsibility
- >for your own actions.
-
- Yes, it was black failures that led to Jim Crow laws, lynchings, slavery,
- the glass ceiling, paying taxes and not having good schools (pre-Brown). the
- U.S. Government and its non-colored people never had institutionalized racism,
- meaning racism that was codified in law. No, the past 400 years were all a
- dream, a la Dallas.
- there is no question that 100% of the problems of Black America cannot be
- placed directly on the government or its people, but to say that Blacks
- problems are solely because of our own failures is simply not based in
- historical or current facts. As a somewhat successful Black person, I can
- reel off plenty of instances where I have been blatently discriminated against
- simply because of my color (let's see some of the white people around here
- be pulled over simply because they happen to be driving a nice car in a white
- neighborhood, yes this failure was all my fault, I should stay out of white
- neighborhoods at noon).
-
-
-
- > for your own actions. The book has over 1300 citations to back up
- > its assertions. Do not allow this fraud to continue. Pick up a copy
-
- I bet if I had the time and the resources I can give well over a million
- assertions by Blacks with regard to white racism leading to "failures" on the
- part of Blacks. I also think that I am being conservative in the million
- number.
- >of this book and demand that the myth of white racism being the cause
- >of all the problems of black-Americans be stopped. Demand that
-
- "Myth"!?! That is a good one.
-
-
-
- > the government end the racist policies such as affirmative action
- > and quotas.
-
-
- Sure, as soon as the u.s. government and the private sector stop their
- racist hiring and admission practices!
-
-
-
-
- >Does racism exist? Yes, it exists in both the black and white
- > communities. However, it is NOT the overriding cause of black
- > failure. It is NOT as prevalent as the media and others would
- >have you believe. Where it exists, it must be condemned and stopped.
- >But it does not lurk behind every tree and this misconception
- >must be stopped also.
- >READ THIS BOOK! LEARN THE FACTS. DEMAND ACTION.
- >--
- >"Life what a beautiful choice" (Thanks to the Arthur Demoss Foundation)
-
- I will defintely read this book. It is always good to get into the mind
- of the people who are trying to ignore the past, present, (and unless things
- drastically change in the next 20 seconds) future.
-