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# Global perspectives 300+ pages Expert insights False Black Power? (New Threats to Freedom Series)

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False Black Power? is a thought-provoking addition to the New Threats to Freedom series, featuring over 300 pages of expert analysis and global perspectives on contemporary issues affecting freedom and social justice.

## Description

Black civil rights leaders have long supported ethnic identity politics and prioritized the integration of political institutions, and seldom has that strategy been questioned. In False Black Power? , Jason L. Riley takes an honest, factual look at why increased black political power has not paid off in the ways that civil rights leadership has promised. Recent decades have witnessed a proliferation of black elected officials, culminating in the historic presidency of Barack Obama. However, racial gaps in employment, income, homeownership, academic achievement, and other measures not only continue but in some cases have even widened. While other racial and ethnic groups in America have made economic advancement a priority, the focus on political capi­tal for blacks has been a disadvantage, blocking them from the fiscal capital that helped power upward mobility among other groups. Riley explains why the political strategy of civil rights lead­ers has left so many blacks behind. The key to black eco­nomic advancement today is overcoming cultural handicaps, not attaining more political power. The book closes with thoughtful responses from key thought leaders Glenn Loury and John McWhorter.

Review: An alternate view of Black Power and race relations. - This is an excellent and timely book. It makes a good companion to the author's previous work, "Please Stop Helping Us.". The book is short, it is also very readable. Mir. Riley is a forceful and convincing writer, but does not descend into the pit of writing a polemic. His main thesis, that the social and economic situations of too many Black people, particularly in urban areas has regressed since the early 1960's and that this regression has occurred almost in lock-step with the rise of a militant Black Power movement, is states succinctly and is supported with a great many statistics that are verified as coming from reliable sources.. His concern is that Black people too often have been misled by political leaders posing as friends, which, in turn, has allowed many of the cultural strengths of the Black community to be forgotten or generally weakened.
Review: Facts really matter to Jason L. Riley in his extremely relevant book on today's society and political landscape. - Observable facts and truth actually matter to Jason L. Riley and his timely and valuable book provides solid proof that Mr. Riley is interested in the truth of what is actually happening in today's society. Well researched and documented with linked footnotes/references, the reader quickly gets the clear understanding that this is both a serious academic work and analysis of what is going on in politics and racial relations in our country today. While Dr. Thomas Sowell is slowing his outstanding output of worthwhile commentary and analysis of what ails our society today, Jason L. Riley has taken the baton and is forging ahead to carry on providing clear headed analysis from a Conservative and objective viewpoint. I highly recommend this book as a timely resource for use by voters, politicians and academics to get, an at times uncomfortable, but necessary counterpoint from Leftist Dogma on where our society is today and what needs to be done to actually improve it, rather than continue with the failed programs and policies of the past. False Black Power? (New Threats to Freedom Series)

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #1,667,056 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,109 in Sociology of Class #1,740 in Political Commentary & Opinion #4,340 in African American Demographic Studies (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 451 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An alternate view of Black Power and race relations.
*by O***N on July 27, 2017*

This is an excellent and timely book. It makes a good companion to the author's previous work, "Please Stop Helping Us.". The book is short, it is also very readable. Mir. Riley is a forceful and convincing writer, but does not descend into the pit of writing a polemic. His main thesis, that the social and economic situations of too many Black people, particularly in urban areas has regressed since the early 1960's and that this regression has occurred almost in lock-step with the rise of a militant Black Power movement, is states succinctly and is supported with a great many statistics that are verified as coming from reliable sources.. His concern is that Black people too often have been misled by political leaders posing as friends, which, in turn, has allowed many of the cultural strengths of the Black community to be forgotten or generally weakened.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Facts really matter to Jason L. Riley in his extremely relevant book on today's society and political landscape.
*by T***E on August 19, 2017*

Observable facts and truth actually matter to Jason L. Riley and his timely and valuable book provides solid proof that Mr. Riley is interested in the truth of what is actually happening in today's society. Well researched and documented with linked footnotes/references, the reader quickly gets the clear understanding that this is both a serious academic work and analysis of what is going on in politics and racial relations in our country today. While Dr. Thomas Sowell is slowing his outstanding output of worthwhile commentary and analysis of what ails our society today, Jason L. Riley has taken the baton and is forging ahead to carry on providing clear headed analysis from a Conservative and objective viewpoint. I highly recommend this book as a timely resource for use by voters, politicians and academics to get, an at times uncomfortable, but necessary counterpoint from Leftist Dogma on where our society is today and what needs to be done to actually improve it, rather than continue with the failed programs and policies of the past. False Black Power? (New Threats to Freedom Series)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Quick and Compelling Read about a Politically Incorrect Topic
*by B***H on July 13, 2017*

The author takes on a taboo subject by arguing that culture and personal choices—not structural racism and white privilege—are the major impediment for social and economic progress in some black communities. So, this book (which is easy to read and well researched) will probably upset a few people because it is not "politically correct." The author succeeds in showing that the sharp rise of black political power at every level of government has not advanced, but actually impeded, black upward mobility because it has relied (counter productively) on victim status as a tool for gaining and maintaining power. Notably, the author illustrates that liberal policies, such as affirmative action and the Great Society program, stymied the economic and social advancement that blacks gained before these programs were adopted in 1960s. Moreover, the author illustrates how blacks before the 1960s succeeded--and did so despite structural racism--because they had strong communities and families. Thus, contrary to liberal ideology, blacks are generally not being disadvantaged by whatever remains of structural racism (or the lingering effects of slavery and Jim Crow laws), but by social decay and the erosion of a strong family structure. This reader enjoyed the constructive criticism provided at the end of the book by John McWorter who argues persuasively that Jason Riley’s argument focuses too much on the greatly-diminished political clout of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and not enough on current progressive commentators (e.g., Ta-Nehishi Coates) and social media sources who have made it feel conscientious if not “cool” to stereotype blacks as victims who require more and more government support to succeed—a position that McWorter finds patronizing, to say the least. Overall, the book is a measured and compelling attack on identity politics and is critical of liberals whose policies, contrary to their alleged intentions, are harming those who they claim to be trying to help.

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