Uproar Over Kate O’Beirne’s Book
I’m amazed at the uproar over Kate O’Beirne’s new book, Blacks Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports. I mean, really — what’s the problem?
Here’s the book description* from Amazon:
A top conservative writer explores the black assault on our families, schools, workplaces, and military.
In her long-awaited first book, Kate O’Beirne takes on America’s leading black activists, and confronts them with hard evidence of how blacks like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades.
O’Beirne is all for racial equality and celebrates the unprecedented opportunities that blacks enjoy today. But she faults those extremists who believe that white racism still reigns and that blacks remain its victims. Their agenda is not pro-black; it’s merely anti-white.
Blacks Who Make the World Worse shows how their destructive handiwork can be felt in every corner of American life, including:
• fractured families and dispensable dads
• offices and schools that have become battlegrounds in the race wars
• military units that put lives at risk to promote social engineeringThis book takes on some very powerful blacks and challenges beliefs that have become orthodoxy, starting with the myth that whites have been the enemy of black progress. O’Beirne marshals her allies, prepares for a good fight, and never loses her sense of humor. This is a provocative book that will appeal to anyone, black or white, who wants some old-fashioned common sense about relations between the races.
Really, what’s the problem? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I’m looking forward to O’Beirne’s followup, Jews Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Zionist Assault Is Taking Over Our Media and Poisoning Our Wells.
*Legal disclaimer: not really. But very close! Just change one little word…
3 Responses to “Uproar Over Kate O’Beirne’s Book”
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Matt Langer says:
Funny how that works, swapping out a single word and producing an argument equally wingnutty, equally afraid and myopic and backwards and reactionary. I wonder what Wittgenstein would say about that.
January 14th, 2006 at 10:56 am EST -
ginmar says:
I used that tactic before. Freaks people out, doesn’t it? Makes it look very very clear.
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Violet Socks says:
It’s a tactic we ought to use more often, I think. Why is racism unacceptable but sexism is still negotiable? (That’s a rhetorical question.) If someone wants to put me in a box because of my sex, how is that less wrong than discriminating because of my race or creed? Equal Rights for Everybody, goddamnit!
