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Enough |
| The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture
of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do about It |
by Juan Williams
ISBN: 0307338231
Pub. Date: August 2006
ISBN-13: 9780307338235
Format: Hardcover, pp. 256
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Sales Rank: 206
List Price: $25.00
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Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of
opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans
are in crisis-caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school,
ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to be parents, and
falling to the bottom in twenty-first-century global economic competition.
In Enough, Juan Williams issues a lucid, impassioned clarion call to do the
right thing now, before we travel so far off the glorious path set by
generations of civil rights heroes that there can be no more reaching back to
offer a hand and rescue those being left behind.
Inspired by Bill Cosby's now famous speech at the NAACP gala celebrating the
fiftieth anniversary of the Brown decision integrating schools, Williams makes
the case that while there is still racism, it is way past time for black
Americans to open their eyes to the "culture of failure" that exists within
their community. He raises the banner of proud black traditional
values-self-help, strong families, and belief in God-that sustained black
people through generations of oppression and flowered in the exhilarating
promise of the modern civil rights movement. Williams asks what happened to
keeping our eyes on the prize by proving the case for equality with black
excellence and achievement.
He takes particular aim at prominent black leaders-from Al Sharpton to Jesse
Jackson to Marion Barry. Williams exposes the call for reparations as an act of
futility, a detour into self-pity; he condemns the "Stop Snitching" campaign as
nothing more than a surrender to criminals; and he decries the glorification of
materialism,misogyny, and murder as a corruption of a rich black culture, a
tragic turn into pornographic excess that is hurting young black minds,
especially among the poor.
Reinforcing his incisive observations with solid research and alarming
statistical data, Williams offers a concrete plan for overcoming the obstacles
that now stand in the way of African Americans' full participation in the
nation's freedom and prosperity. Certain to be widely discussed and vehemently
debated, Enough is a bold, perceptive, solution-based look at African American
life, culture, and politics today.
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