Racism and Hate (ePub)

RACISM and HATE: An American Reality, is a provocative new updated examinationof Dr. Gunnar Myrdals epic study of the subject matter done over 70 years ago in thelate 1930s. That study took a look at where race relations were in the country and the effect it washaving on our democracy, some 70 years after the Civil War. That work was titled An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern DemocracyThe author, in this work, looked back at our history here in America, dealing with racerelations, over the last 70 years and through exhausted research and analysis, concludedthat the dilemma was not so much a particular people, but in fact, the dilemma hadmore to do with the man induced self-fulfi lling prophecy of Racism. To put a human face on the subject matter he used his own familys history here inGeorgia starting in 1784 through slavery, through the Civil War, through the Jim Crowlaws of the South, through Plessey v Ferguson, clear up until 1954 when Brown v Boardof Education overturned Plessey. The book take a critical look at the year 1954, fi rst analyzing the enormity of the 14thamendment rights violations that Plessey had allowed to occur and then secondly theramifi cations of the Brown v Board of Education case. The author also examine the lighting rod effect the fi rst American President of Africandescent has had on bringing the hidden vestiges of RACISM out of the closet andplacing it front and center on the nations conscience.