My father wanted me to read this book. It's a recap of where african americans are today economically and socially. But the bulk of the book deals with the history of slavery. I wish the author had left off most of the history and delved into the current ideas on economic development in detail and gave the concrete examples of how blacks can extricate themselves from poverty. Also I despise categorizing people: but the author has a definite bias against what he refers to as "black conservatives": these diatribes against them detract from the potential of the book.

It just so happens I'm reading this book along with reading about technology and globalism; and it's blowing my mind because I see how far many of the socio-economically disadvantaged african americans have to go to catch up with the rest of the world who is more technologically advanced. ( )