Genre: Nonfiction—Politics
Completed: 17 January 2017
Summary & Review:
Thirty years after the Civil Rights movement, race relations had not improved in the United States. In fact, by almost any measure black Americans were even worse off in the early 1990s than they were before the end of segregation and Jim Crow. But why have our attempts at racial reconciliation been so ineffective? Jared Taylor presents his findings and conclusions backed up by over thirteen hundred footnotes and citations.
It’s amazing how much has changed in the twenty years since this book was first published. On the cover of the edition I have there is a glowing review from National Review. These days, NR and basically all of “polite society” won’t touch Taylor with a ten-foot pole. People often label Taylor as a “white supremacist,” but this is a nonsensical charge. He consistently points out in his own writings how Asians outperform whites in many metrics, including IQ and average household income in the US. Taylor is also called a "racist", but as he writes in this book (published 25 years ago!), this insult is a weapon the left wields to shut down debate when they do not want to discuss hard-to-deal-with facts.
A fair-minded reader would be hard pressed to find anything “racist” in this book. In fact, most of the arguments are there to try and improve the situation for Americans of all races. Taylor laments the plight of the underclass, both white (see my review of Charles Murray’s Coming Apart (#232)) and black and he offers very sounds solutions to prevalent problems. Essentially it came down to, that if you do not want to be poor in modern America simply finish high school, get and stay married, and hold down a job, any job.
Rating: 9.0
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