Posts in the "Books" Category

• Liberal Racism Creates the Black Conservative: Issues and New Perspectives

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="0595400337"]

  Conservative radio talk show host and columnist Lucky Rosenbloom takes a provocative look at the causal relationships between liberal racism, religion, and politics, and explores how liberals have fostered hatred toward Republicans in urban areas in Liberal Racism Creates the Black Conservative: Issues and New Perspectives.

  With this stimulating collection of past columns, Rosenbloom provides intellectual, yet harrowing opinions surrounding the social conditions that allow individuals the ability to perpetuate liberal political racism in communities of color. At an early age, Rosenbloom became intimately familiar with these types of racism. As a ten-year-old, he was bused to an all-white school and had to deal with his classmates’ intolerance, and he heard a racial slur (Nigger) directed at his father in a liberal court.

  In addition, Liberal Racism Creates the Black Conservative delves into alleged acts of racism in liberal entities from the Stillwater State Prison to the Hubert Humphrey Job Corps Center. Learn about Democrats who organized and destroyed the Rondo neighborhood in Minnesota, liberal politicians who taxed Blacks out of home ownership, and how Republicans are blamed for these actions. With Liberal Racism Creates the Black Conservative, Rosenbloom offers a controversial look at one of America’s most hotly debated topics today.

  [/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...

• He Talk Like a White Boy: Reflections of a Conservative Black Man on Faith, Family, Politics, and Authenticity

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="B003A02RCQ"]

  Actor and social commentator Joseph C. Phillips speaks powerfully about the topic of life as a conservative African-American actor, husband, father, and citizen. In today’s political climate, with race such an issue, this collection of essays is not only timely, but thought provoking.

  Like Democratic candidate for President Barack Obama, Phillips has had his authenticity as a black man questioned by members of his own race, for trivial reasons such as the way he speaks, his choices in music, politics, faith, and family. Also like Obama, Phillips has often been accused of not being “black enough,” while, as an actor, he has encountered even more pointing fingers for not being liberal enough. With a frank voice, this brilliant and outspoken author presents a series of witty and provocative essays that examine life as a conservative African-American, and the simple fact that authenticity is far more complicated than one’s choice of words.

  [/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...

• Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in America

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="B000QCQYA2"]Black conservatism is no oxymoron. Recent polls have indicated that an increasing number of black Americans identified themselves as conservatives, favoring smaller government, lower taxes, tougher crime laws, welfare reform, and personal initiative. While applauding the moral and legal victories of the Civil Rights Movement, the conservative spokespeople in this dynamic new collection reject the claims of inequities and what they consider to the self-serving agenda of the present civil rights establishment. National leaders such as Justice Clarence Thomas and former Representative Gary Franks and writers such as Shelby Steele and Glenn Loury appear either as contributors or as subjects in this volume. They emphasize the grassroots aspects of black conservatism with a reliance on common sense and common humanity.[/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...

• Intellectuals and Society

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="046501948X"]

  The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not those power holders accept the general vision or the particular policies favored by intellectuals. Even government leaders with disdain or contempt for intellectuals have had to bend to the climate of opinion shaped by those intellectuals.

  Intellectuals and Society not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constraints under which their views and visions have emerged. One of the most surprising aspects of this study is how often intellectuals have been proved not only wrong, but grossly and disastrously wrong in their prescriptions for the ills of society—and how little their views have changed in response to empirical evidence of the disasters entailed by those views.

  [/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...

• Diary of a Mad Black PYC (Proud Young Conservative): Editorials, Essays, and Articles from a Hip Hop Republican (Volume 1)

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="1448626099"]Can a Black politico be truly Republican in the Age of Obama? Can the words “hip-hop” and “republican” go together amicably?[/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...

• Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="1416595015"]

  FUNNY.

  FRIGHTENING.

  TRUE.

  It happens to all of us: You’re minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, or the rich have to finally start paying their fair share of taxes.

  Just go away! you think to yourself — but they only become more obnoxious. Your heart rate quickens. You start to sweat. You can’t get away. Your only hope is…

  …this book.

  Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers An Inconvenient Book and Glenn Beck’s Common Sense, has stumbled upon the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds: knowing the facts.

  And this book is full of them.

  The next time your Idiot Friends tell you how gun control prevents gun violence, you’ll tell them all about England’s handgun ban (see page 53). When they tell you that we should copy the UK’s health-care system, you’ll recount the horrifying facts you read on page 244. And the next time an idiot tells you that vegetable prices will skyrocket without illegal workers, you’ll stop saying “no, they won’t” and you’ll start saying, “actually, eliminating all illegal labor will cause us to spend just $8 a year more on produce.” (See page 139.)

  Idiots can’t be identified through voting records, they can be found only by looking for people who hide behind stereotypes, embrace partisanship, and believe that bumper sticker slogans are a substitute for common sense. If you know someone who fits the bill, then Arguing with Idiots will help you silence them once and for all with the ultimate weapon: the truth.[/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...

• The Conscience of Conservative Blacks

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="1934791040"]

  The essays in this volume are based on presentations made on April 30, 2004 by five conservative African-Americans at the annual meeting of The Heritage Foundation Resource Bank. The meeting took place at the Renaissance Hotel in Chicago.

  The panel was brought together by Lee H. Walker, president of The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change, a nonprofit organization based in Chicago. Walker is also a senior fellow at The Heartland Institute. He moderated the panel and helped produce this book.

  Approximately 100 people from around the country attended the session and listened to the panel. Judging by the enthusiastic applause after each presentation and the prolonged conversations when it ended, it is safe to say the panelists were well received.

  Funding for this book was provided by donors to The New Coalition and The Heartland Institute and grants from the Ceres Foundation and J.M. Foundation.

  [/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...

• From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="1557787883"]From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today is a no-holds- barred analysis of contemporary liberalism and the havoc it is wreaking in American culture. From race to abortion, to feminism, immigration and education, the ideas and public policies produced by the Left are hindering self-government and damaging lives, say Peterson and Stetson.

  Through the prism of Jesse Lee Peterson’s fascinating life experience and his history of grassroots community work on the streets of riot-torn south-central Los Angeles, Peterson and Stetson examine the violations of common sense and sound thinking that the civil rights establishment and its amen chorus of liberal lobbies constantly perpetrate against the American public. Peterson and Stetson point the way out of the statist mentality steadily overtaking our public life, advocating a new culture of self-responsibility and moral renewal able to resuscitate the sagging spirits of an American public accustomed to looking everywhere but within themselves for the solutions to their personal and political problems.[/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...

• George S. Schuyler: Portrait of a Black Conservative

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="1572335815"][/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...

• Coming Out Of the Republican Closet – Coming to terms with being black, patriotic and conservative

  Books

  [ReviewAZON asin="141207939X"]You’ve heard from the pros, pundits, and polemics. Now hear from one ordinary citizen, who discusses his transformation into a conservative voter.

  This is the life story of a black man who grew up in a Democratic Party family in North Carolina. Reginald and his four siblings were raised by their mother, Margaret Bohannon. “As far back as I can remember,” he says, “Mom has voted and worked for the Democratic Party. She has been an allegiant Democrat since the early 1960s.”

  After joining the United States Air Force in 1978, Reginald quickly rose through the ranks and earned a “Special Duty Assignment” to the Air Force One Presidential Wing under President Ronald Reagan. After returning to civilian life and volunteering with the Jesse Jackson presidential campaign, he became disgruntled with the Democratic Party. This led him to research both the Democratic and Republican parties.

  This eye-opening book begins with an introduction, in which Reginald contemplates his evolution in politics. He went from not caring about politics at all, to taking a modicum of interest in his family’s chosen party (Democratic), to asking himself whether he really was a liberal or a closet conservative who was just too embarrassed to admit it.

  Reginald gives one important reason for writing this book: “I felt compelled to get my story out to the public,” he says, “because I have come across quite a few people, particularly blacks, who have stories similar to mine but who, just like me, did not want to speak out because of the potential backlash. It was clear that if one of us were to write a book about our experiences, he or she surely would receive a lot of criticism. That being the case, I decided courageously to let it be me.”[/ReviewAZON]

  Read More...