No Matter What...They'll Call This Book Racist: How our Fear of Talking Honestly About Race Hurts Us All

This book deals with our utter failure to deal honestly with a broad range of issues involving race in this country. Why? Because to tell the truth about matters like crime or black educational underachievement would mean facing up to the soul-destroying pathologies common to urban black culture. Far better, in the view of black leaders and their guilty white allies, to relentlessly blame the intractable problems that continue to afflict the black community on historic oppression and lack of government funding, and to characterize those who challenge such a view and try to come up with genuine solutions as - what else? - racist.