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African Americans are running in place



William Reed

Fifty years after the March on Washington, the sole surviving speaker from that day is Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. Lewis is a living symbol of "the Black struggle." As the struggle continues, Lewis is at once a prominent part of the past, but now, possibly part of Black peoples’ problems. Called "one of the most courageous persons the civil rights movement produced," Lewis, and his gaggles’ political accomplishments are subject to question.

There’s no progress without struggle, so it’s proper to honor Lewis for his struggle. In his struggle, Lewis has experienced more than 40 arrests, physical attacks and serious injuries. While still a young man, Lewis became chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By 1963, he was dubbed one of the "Big Six" leaders of the civil rights movement. At the age of 23, he served as both an architect of and a keynote speaker during the historic 1963 March on Washington.

In 1965, Lewis and Hosea Williams led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., on March 7th. They intended to march from Selma to Montgomery to demonstrate the need for voting rights, but were attacked by Alabama state troopers in a brutal confrontation.

John Robert Lewis is known by most as an accomplished civil rights leader, but actually, Lewis has spent most of his life as a politician. A former Atlanta Council member, Lewis has spent decades in Congress. The powerful Democrat has served in Congress since 1987. He represents the Fifth District of Georgia, which includes most of Atlanta. This district is nearly 56 percent African American. He’s the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation and serves as senior chief deputy whip.

At 72, Lewis epitomizes African Americans "marching in place." In reality, Blacks’ economic condition shows no change since Lewis spoke on the National Mall in 1963. African Americans benefited from the advances made during the civil rights era but not without the lingering effects of historical marginalization when considered as a whole. The income gap between White and Black Americans is $8,000 less than it was 40 years ago. Over the past 50 years, the unemployment rate for African Americans has remained twice that of Whites. The income gap between African Americans and Whites has closed a mere 7 percent.

There’s little evidence that Blacks correlate their voting patterns and economic status. It’s as if they never heard the political term "bring home the bacon." There’s been little serious thought or discussion among African-American leadership as to "why the failures?" To whom do we attribute our overall lack of "change" over the years? At minimum, longtime politicians and officeholders such as Lewis, the Democratic Party and the roles they’ve played must be scrutinized.

We are complicit in our own demise. We refuse to hold Lewis, Black elected officials and executives that became post-civil rights movement power brokers accountable. Somehow Black voters can’t see that the blame for our paltry economic status goes to African-American voters who regularly return Black incumbents like Lewis to local and national office. Black Democrats hold 43 of the 50 least competitive seats in the Congress. Lewis holds the country’s "least competitive House district" and hasn’t faced a challenger in decades. Twenty-two members of the Congressional Black Caucus hold "safe" seats similar in profile to Lewis.

Continuing to do what you’ve always done will continue to provide what it always has. To experience a "change" in our status, Blacks must make decisive changes


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 Black Press International Business/Economic Feature                                                           Week of April 24, 2011

BUSINESS EXCHANGE

By William Reed

DON’T ROCK THE BOAT!

The legacy of slavery is immeasurable, but the best strategies for moving forward would be vigorously enforcing our anti-discrimination laws in education and job training. – Barack Obama - 2008

 

What do Black people want from Obama?  Or, what do you think Obama is charged to do for Black people?  Do you think that American Blacks will ever get their “40 acres and a mule”?   Is this generation of the descendants of slaves stupid enough to trade financial justice due them through reparations for the symbolism of having a Black man in the White House?

 

To win the Presidency in 2008 Barack Obama disavowed the concept of reparations for Blacks.  Black Reparations proposes that compensation be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States in consideration of the coerced and uncompensated labor their ancestors performed over several centuries. This compensation has been proposed in a variety of forms, from individual monetary payments to land-based compensation schemes related to independence. Among the Obama camp, and truthfully, among Black Americans, the idea remains highly controversial and no broad consensus exists as to how it could be implemented. 

So, now it’s back to politics as usual - not rocking America’s boat 
of institutional racism.  Though he made it a point to stay away from the ‘hood’ the past couple of years, now that it’s election season Obama’s out glad-handing Blacks.  When he recently went “uptown” to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in Harlem, Obama and sidekick David Axelrod emphasized that “raising the Black voter turnout was a paramount task for 2012.” Referring to the large numbers of young unregistered Blacks and Hispanics, Axelrod said that that: “These types of voters are critical to keeping Barack Obama in the White House a second term.”

Though they’ve done little among the Black masses, there appears to be “no change” in Obama’s 2012 approach to Black Outreach.  Before they unflinchingly vote for Obama’s second term Blacks have to stop letting him treat them like his “chick on the side.”  The chick on the side is glad for any time she can get. She knows she is not the primary love, but is willing to settle.  But, with double digit unemployment ravaging Black communities the time for settling with Obama and his non-accountability is over.

 

Blacks got nothing with Obama.  They ask for nothing and get exactly that in return.  Latinos ask him for something and they got something.  Gays and lesbians got him to change ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.”  Jews demanded he deal with Israel and he does, so why is it that when it comes to Blacks we are persona non grata regarding political representation?”

 

Some naively say nonsense such as “Barack is the answer to MLK’s prayers.”  Economically, African Americans have benefited from advances made during the Civil Rights era, particularly among the educated, but not without the lingering effects of historical marginalization when considered as a whole. Inequalities still persist for African Americans. Although the racial disparity in poverty rates has narrowed, African Americans are over-represented among the nation’s poor; this was directly related to the disproportionate percentage of African American families headed by single women, such families are collectively poorer.

 

The median income for African Americans is 76 cents for every dollar of their European American counterparts.  African Americans are still underrepresented in government and employment.  In 1999, the median income of African American families was $33,255 compared to $53,356 for European Americans. In times of economic hardship for the nation, African Americans are always “last hired and first fired”, yet we foolishly let political candidates pass on the reparations debt.  Shouldn’t a discussion of the economic debt due Blacks be a part of the 2012 political campaign?  Despite successes like Oprah, Michael Jordan, Bill Cosby and Obama, 

Blacks as a group have not reached anything approaching economic equality or equitable opportunity when compared with whites.  When it comes to real empowerment, Black Americans have to stop letting candidates play to this country’s structural racism and still get their vote.

 

(William Reed is available for speaking/seminar projects via BaileyGroup.org)
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Black Press International Business/Economic Feature                                                           Week of July 11, 2011
BUSINESS EXCHANGE
By William Reed
A CALL FOR BLACK AMERICANS TO RESPOND
You could be "the one." Chances are you"re the match who could benefit your kin and kind with a life-saving donation.  Every day, thousands of 
patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases hope for a marrow donor who could make a transplant possible for them.
Black Americans can help one another by becoming activists and participants in bone marrow donations.
Hundreds of thousands of African Americans long for a bone marrow transplant. Over the past 40 years, bone marrow and hematopoietic
stem cell transplantation have been used with increased frequency to treat numerous malignant and nonmalignant diseases. The transplantation
success rate is tempered by the fact that the chance of finding a match remains close to 93 percent for Caucasians, but as low as 66 percent for
African Americans. The tissue types used for matching patients with donors are inherited, so patients are most likely to find a match within their
own racial or ethnic heritage. African Americans need to participate in greater numbers in "Be The Match" programs. It"s not a decision the
government has to make, in this instance African Americans have the power to help themselves. Involvement in the "Be The Match" Registry
operated by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) enables African Americans to help patients with life-threatening diseases receive
much needed transplants. The more African Americans who participate in "Be The Match" programs and events, the more African-American
bone marrow will be available among transplantation programs.
Increasing the national registry rolls requires a movement of volunteers from across the country to: plan and coordinate local bone marrow
donation events; spread the word; share stories of patients in search of a match and fundraising. One such connection exists between the
National Marrow Donor Program and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF). Throughout the month of July, they are raising
awareness about the critical need for African Americans to join the "Be The Match" Registry. Growing numbers of African Americans are in
need of a transplant. Every year, more than 10,000 patients in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases for which the
best option for a cure could be a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor or donated umbilical cord blood unit. The National Marrow
Donor Program is a leader in the field of unrelated marrow and umbilical cord blood transplantation. The NMDP mission is to ensure all
patients who need a transplant receive access to treatment. The organization coordinates the collection of hematopoietic ("blood-forming")
cells that are used to perform transplants. Patients who need a hematopoietic cell transplant but who lack a suitably matched donor in their
family can search the "Be The Match" Registry for a matched unrelated donor or umbilical cord blood unit. The NMDP is headquartered in
Minneapolis and manages the "Be the Match" Registry. In its organizational structure, the NMDP operates the C.W. Bill Young Cell
Transplantation Program to provide a single point of access to marrow donors and umbilical cord blood units for a global network of hospitals,
blood centers, laboratories and recruitment centers. Since 1987, NMDP has facilitated more than 40,000 transplants.
More African Americans are needed to enlarge the pool of people who facilitate bone marrow transplants. Too few African Americans
know how to help with bone marrow donations. According to medical experts, the majority of donation cases involve no surgery, because
in most instances doctors request a non-surgical peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donation. In cases where the marrow donation is a
surgical procedure, most donors go home the same day. Generally, people who donate marrow receive general anesthesia and feel no
pain during procedures. Most marrow donors are back to their normal activities in two to seven days. The "Be The Match" program is
worth checking into, in most cases the program will reimburse travel and other costs associated with donations. For information on the
"Be The Match" Registry" contact: the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), 3001 Broadway Street N.E., Suite 100, Minneapolis,
Minn. 55413-1753 " www.marrow.org
(William Reed is available for speaking/seminar projects via BaileyGroup.org)

Black Press International Business/Economic Feature                                                           Week of July 18, 2011

BUSINESS EXCHANGE

By William Reed
HAS BLACK ANGER ENDED?
http://www.theportlandalliance.org/reed

The worst abuses of the Jim Crow era have been eliminated, but the moral outrage inspired by a personal encounter with bigotry remains the most powerful vehicle for conveying the injuries and indignities of racial inequality.

 

In the days since the great civil rights awakening, a revolution has occurred across America. Uptight suburbanites who couldn’t imagine socializing with, working for or marrying a “Negro,” have given way to a new and different generation.  That process has cleared the way for a generation of “Black Believers” who fully accept that America means what it says when it promises to treat them fairly.  Are these young African Americans naive about racism or basically more confident than their elders? Now, from a venerated and best-selling author on American life comes a tremendously important book about one of the most significant issues in the history of our republic – America’s race relations.

 

The book, The End of Anger by Ellis Cose offers a fresh, original appraisal of our nation at this extraordinary time, tracking the diminishment of Black anger and investigating the "generational shifting of the American mind."  Weaving material from myriad interviews as well as two large and ambitious surveys - one of Black Harvard MBAs and the other of graduates of A Better Chance, a program that has offered elite educational opportunities to thousands of young people of color since 1963 – Cose offers an invaluable portrait of contemporary America in which all agree that life is different for an African American than it is for a White American. Cose says that what is different is the perception of discrimination in terms of their life possibilities. Younger Blacks are more likely to believe that they can personally overcome institutional racism because there are ways to get around it that their parents didn’t have, and their grandparents could not even imagine.

 

Cose sketches a picture of consistent historical and generational change in which growing optimism among Blacks is a natural response to waning racial bigotry among Whites.  In The End of Anger, Cose names each generation to reflect improving race relations: the Black “Fighters” of midcentury America were succeeded by the civil rights “Dreamers” of the late 20th century, who are now sharing power and prominence with the “Believers” of the new millennium. Cose’s collection of intergenerational interviews provides tangible evidence of the improvement in racial dynamics over the past 50 years: the contempt and blatant discrimination suffered by the “fighters” and “dreamers” giving way to the inter­racial relationships and expanded job opportunities of the “believers.”

 

The refreshing, readable and comprehensive book cites “a sense of optimism among African Americans” and in a interesting manner, attributes the increase of Black optimism to three factors: Barack Obama’s election; "generational evolution," which sees each successive generation harboring fewer racial prejudices, suggesting that African Americans could be facing less racism than their parents; and the related rise of racial equality.

 

The book provides a contemporary look at 21st century America and is a paradoxical portrait of race in America, where educated, privileged Blacks are optimistic about their futures, but for Blacks at the lower end of the economic spectrum, equality remains as elusive as ever. Cose matches statistics to analysis in his comprehensive look at race in the 21st century.  The End of Anger provides insight on young Black movers and shakers like the former Tennessee congressman Harold E. Ford Jr. and the N.A.A.C.P. president, Benjamin Jealous.  Cose’s interviews with well- established leaders with relatively conventional platforms and constituencies produced predictable comments.

 

Does hard-core and blatant racism still exist?  Read Cose’s offering as he states “I think we will for generations, and maybe forever, be dealing with the impact of racism. But racism as a phenomenon itself is fading, but I don't think we’ll reach a point where we can talk about it and deal with it when it’s still a problem.”  Racism is a problem we still have to deal with in America, but The End of Anger may well be the most important book dealing with race to date.

 

(William Reed is available for speaking/seminar projects via BaileyGroup.org)

 

 

his situation may make him a business icon. He is a “hired gun” that’s been with Darden for 17 years. In his capacity for the past seven years, as CEO, he’s guided the company to a $400 million annual net income. Otis came to Darden in its spin-off from General Mills. His only previous restaurant experience had been in college when he waited tables during summer breaks. Now, the 56-year-old executive and his wife have one of the largest collections of African art in the U.S.

 

The group’s allegation that "Black workers are routinely discriminated against throughout the restaurant industry” merits the public’s attention and concern.  Beyond Darden, restaurants account for one of every 12 private sector jobs and are the nation’s second-largest private sector employer.  The industry has a workforce of nearly 13 million and is one of the country’s strongest job creators. National Restaurant Association President Dawn Sweeny says “The industry provides millions with rewarding career and employment opportunities … and whether in the kitchen or the corporate office, restaurants offer a variety of career paths.”

 

A sign of the times, the Darden discrimination case bears further watching.  

(William Reed is Publisher of Who’s Who in Black Corporate America and available for speaking/seminar projects via the Bailey Group.org)

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 Black Press International Business/Economic Feature                                                           Week of April 24, 2011

BUSINESS EXCHANGE

By William Reed

DON’T ROCK THE BOAT!

The legacy of slavery is immeasurable, but the best strategies for moving forward would be vigorously enforcing our anti-discrimination laws in education and job training. – Barack Obama - 2008

 

What do Black people want from Obama?  Or, what do you think Obama is charged to do for Black people?  Do you think that American Blacks will ever get their “40 acres and a mule”?   Is this generation of the descendants of slaves stupid enough to trade financial justice due them through reparations for the symbolism of having a Black man in the White House?

 

To win the Presidency in 2008 Barack Obama disavowed the concept of reparations for Blacks.  Black Reparations proposes that compensation be provided to the descendants of enslaved people in the United States in consideration of the coerced and uncompensated labor their ancestors performed over several centuries. This compensation has been proposed in a variety of forms, from individual monetary payments to land-based compensation schemes related to independence. Among the Obama camp, and truthfully, among Black Americans, the idea remains highly controversial and no broad consensus exists as to how it could be implemented. 

So, now it’s back to politics as usual - not rocking America’s boat 
of institutional racism.  Though he made it a point to stay away from the ‘hood’ the past couple of years, now that it’s election season Obama’s out glad-handing Blacks.  When he recently went “uptown” to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in Harlem, Obama and sidekick David Axelrod emphasized that “raising the Black voter turnout was a paramount task for 2012.” Referring to the large numbers of young unregistered Blacks and Hispanics, Axelrod said that that: “These types of voters are critical to keeping Barack Obama in the White House a second term.”

Though they’ve done little among the Black masses, there appears to be “no change” in Obama’s 2012 approach to Black Outreach.  Before they unflinchingly vote for Obama’s second term Blacks have to stop letting him treat them like his “chick on the side.”  The chick on the side is glad for any time she can get. She knows she is not the primary love, but is willing to settle.  But, with double digit unemployment ravaging Black communities the time for settling with Obama and his non-accountability is over.

 

Blacks got nothing with Obama.  They ask for nothing and get exactly that in return.  Latinos ask him for something and they got something.  Gays and lesbians got him to change ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.”  Jews demanded he deal with Israel and he does, so why is it that when it comes to Blacks we are persona non grata regarding political representation?”

 

Some naively say nonsense such as “Barack is the answer to MLK’s prayers.”  Economically, African Americans have benefited from advances made during the Civil Rights era, particularly among the educated, but not without the lingering effects of historical marginalization when considered as a whole. Inequalities still persist for African Americans. Although the racial disparity in poverty rates has narrowed, African Americans are over-represented among the nation’s poor; this was directly related to the disproportionate percentage of African American families headed by single women, such families are collectively poorer.

 

The median income for African Americans is 76 cents for every dollar of their European American counterparts.  African Americans are still underrepresented in government and employment.  In 1999, the median income of African American families was $33,255 compared to $53,356 for European Americans. In times of economic hardship for the nation, African Americans are always “last hired and first fired”, yet we foolishly let political candidates pass on the reparations debt.  Shouldn’t a discussion of the economic debt due Blacks be a part of the 2012 political campaign?  Despite successes like Oprah, Michael Jordan, Bill Cosby and Obama, 

Blacks as a group have not reached anything approaching economic equality or equitable opportunity when compared with whites.  When it comes to real empowerment, Black Americans have to stop letting candidates play to this country’s structural racism and still get their vote.

 

(William Reed is available for speaking/seminar projects via BaileyGroup.org)
***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

Black Press International Business/Economic Feature                                                           Week of July 11, 2011
BUSINESS EXCHANGE
By William Reed
A CALL FOR BLACK AMERICANS TO RESPOND
You could be "the one." Chances are you"re the match who could benefit your kin and kind with a life-saving donation.  Every day, thousands of 
patients with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases hope for a marrow donor who could make a transplant possible for them.
Black Americans can help one another by becoming activists and participants in bone marrow donations.
Hundreds of thousands of African Americans long for a bone marrow transplant. Over the past 40 years, bone marrow and hematopoietic
stem cell transplantation have been used with increased frequency to treat numerous malignant and nonmalignant diseases. The transplantation
success rate is tempered by the fact that the chance of finding a match remains close to 93 percent for Caucasians, but as low as 66 percent for
African Americans. The tissue types used for matching patients with donors are inherited, so patients are most likely to find a match within their
own racial or ethnic heritage. African Americans need to participate in greater numbers in "Be The Match" programs. It"s not a decision the
government has to make, in this instance African Americans have the power to help themselves. Involvement in the "Be The Match" Registry
operated by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) enables African Americans to help patients with life-threatening diseases receive
much needed transplants. The more African Americans who participate in "Be The Match" programs and events, the more African-American
bone marrow will be available among transplantation programs.
Increasing the national registry rolls requires a movement of volunteers from across the country to: plan and coordinate local bone marrow
donation events; spread the word; share stories of patients in search of a match and fundraising. One such connection exists between the
National Marrow Donor Program and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF). Throughout the month of July, they are raising
awareness about the critical need for African Americans to join the "Be The Match" Registry. Growing numbers of African Americans are in
need of a transplant. Every year, more than 10,000 patients in the United States are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases for which the
best option for a cure could be a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor or donated umbilical cord blood unit. The National Marrow
Donor Program is a leader in the field of unrelated marrow and umbilical cord blood transplantation. The NMDP mission is to ensure all
patients who need a transplant receive access to treatment. The organization coordinates the collection of hematopoietic ("blood-forming")
cells that are used to perform transplants. Patients who need a hematopoietic cell transplant but who lack a suitably matched donor in their
family can search the "Be The Match" Registry for a matched unrelated donor or umbilical cord blood unit. The NMDP is headquartered in
Minneapolis and manages the "Be the Match" Registry. In its organizational structure, the NMDP operates the C.W. Bill Young Cell
Transplantation Program to provide a single point of access to marrow donors and umbilical cord blood units for a global network of hospitals,
blood centers, laboratories and recruitment centers. Since 1987, NMDP has facilitated more than 40,000 transplants.
More African Americans are needed to enlarge the pool of people who facilitate bone marrow transplants. Too few African Americans
know how to help with bone marrow donations. According to medical experts, the majority of donation cases involve no surgery, because
in most instances doctors request a non-surgical peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donation. In cases where the marrow donation is a
surgical procedure, most donors go home the same day. Generally, people who donate marrow receive general anesthesia and feel no
pain during procedures. Most marrow donors are back to their normal activities in two to seven days. The "Be The Match" program is
worth checking into, in most cases the program will reimburse travel and other costs associated with donations. For information on the
"Be The Match" Registry" contact: the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), 3001 Broadway Street N.E., Suite 100, Minneapolis,
Minn. 55413-1753 " www.marrow.org
(William Reed is available for speaking/seminar projects via BaileyGroup.org)

Black Press International Business/Economic Feature                                                           Week of July 18, 2011

BUSINESS EXCHANGE

By William Reed
HAS BLACK ANGER ENDED?
http://www.theportlandalliance.org/reed

The worst abuses of the Jim Crow era have been eliminated, but the moral outrage inspired by a personal encounter with bigotry remains the most powerful vehicle for conveying the injuries and indignities of racial inequality.

 

In the days since the great civil rights awakening, a revolution has occurred across America. Uptight suburbanites who couldn’t imagine socializing with, working for or marrying a “Negro,” have given way to a new and different generation.  That process has cleared the way for a generation of “Black Believers” who fully accept that America means what it says when it promises to treat them fairly.  Are these young African Americans naive about racism or basically more confident than their elders? Now, from a venerated and best-selling author on American life comes a tremendously important book about one of the most significant issues in the history of our republic – America’s race relations.

 

The book, The End of Anger by Ellis Cose offers a fresh, original appraisal of our nation at this extraordinary time, tracking the diminishment of Black anger and investigating the "generational shifting of the American mind."  Weaving material from myriad interviews as well as two large and ambitious surveys - one of Black Harvard MBAs and the other of graduates of A Better Chance, a program that has offered elite educational opportunities to thousands of young people of color since 1963 – Cose offers an invaluable portrait of contemporary America in which all agree that life is different for an African American than it is for a White American. Cose says that what is different is the perception of discrimination in terms of their life possibilities. Younger Blacks are more likely to believe that they can personally overcome institutional racism because there are ways to get around it that their parents didn’t have, and their grandparents could not even imagine.

 

Cose sketches a picture of consistent historical and generational change in which growing optimism among Blacks is a natural response to waning racial bigotry among Whites.  In The End of Anger, Cose names each generation to reflect improving race relations: the Black “Fighters” of midcentury America were succeeded by the civil rights “Dreamers” of the late 20th century, who are now sharing power and prominence with the “Believers” of the new millennium. Cose’s collection of intergenerational interviews provides tangible evidence of the improvement in racial dynamics over the past 50 years: the contempt and blatant discrimination suffered by the “fighters” and “dreamers” giving way to the inter­racial relationships and expanded job opportunities of the “believers.”

 

The refreshing, readable and comprehensive book cites “a sense of optimism among African Americans” and in a interesting manner, attributes the increase of Black optimism to three factors: Barack Obama’s election; "generational evolution," which sees each successive generation harboring fewer racial prejudices, suggesting that African Americans could be facing less racism than their parents; and the related rise of racial equality.

 

The book provides a contemporary look at 21st century America and is a paradoxical portrait of race in America, where educated, privileged Blacks are optimistic about their futures, but for Blacks at the lower end of the economic spectrum, equality remains as elusive as ever. Cose matches statistics to analysis in his comprehensive look at race in the 21st century.  The End of Anger provides insight on young Black movers and shakers like the former Tennessee congressman Harold E. Ford Jr. and the N.A.A.C.P. president, Benjamin Jealous.  Cose’s interviews with well- established leaders with relatively conventional platforms and constituencies produced predictable comments.

 

Does hard-core and blatant racism still exist?  Read Cose’s offering as he states “I think we will for generations, and maybe forever, be dealing with the impact of racism. But racism as a phenomenon itself is fading, but I don't think we’ll reach a point where we can talk about it and deal with it when it’s still a problem.”  Racism is a problem we still have to deal with in America, but The End of Anger may well be the most important book dealing with race to date.

 

(William Reed is available for speaking/seminar projects via BaileyGroup.org)