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A review by gemurray
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
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I would absolutely not recommend this book, and I’m unsure how it made it onto my reading list. The author uses rhetoric and insults to dismiss what he deems as third wave anti racism, but provides no real evidence to describe how “woke racism” has “betrayed Black America”, as the title suggests. He even states that Black Americans had an easier time rising through socioeconomic ranks than other migrant groups because segregation was outlawed and therefore those racist ideals were no longer a problem for Black people. Quote below:
“Segregation had been outlawed from on high with Black Americans not having had to endure the long, slow, clawing-our-way-into-self-sufficiency, regardless of prevailing attitudes, that other groups had dealt with. In the grand scheme of things, it was a moral advance for the country that a subordinate group did not simply have to make the best of the worst with no questions asked.”
“Segregation had been outlawed from on high with Black Americans not having had to endure the long, slow, clawing-our-way-into-self-sufficiency, regardless of prevailing attitudes, that other groups had dealt with. In the grand scheme of things, it was a moral advance for the country that a subordinate group did not simply have to make the best of the worst with no questions asked.”