Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failures that are Undermining Black America and What We Can do About It.Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failures That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It by Juan Williams For the Chilean naval officer see Juan Williams Rebolledo Juan Williams, National Public Radio's Senior Correspondent, is a African-American Emmy Award–winning writer, and radio and television correspondent, who has written for The Washington Post Crown Publishers, August 2006 $25, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-307-33823-5 The author is an energetic Washington--based journalist. He works for Fox News and National Public Radio, and frequently moderates the television weekly America's Black Forum. Williams has several books to his credit, but he wrote only one by himself, Thurgood Marshall For people and institutions etc. named after Thurgood Marshall, see . Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. : American Revolutionary (Crown, 1998), a biography. In this new solo effort, Enough, Williams erects his narrative on speeches by and interviews with Bill Cosby, who has excoriated the black poor on behavioral grounds. This book venerates Cosby and substantiates Williams's credentials as the nation's leading neoconservative ne·o·con·ser·va·tism also ne·o-con·ser·va·tism n. An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s: black journalist. The title tells the story: Poor African Americans are irresponsible and help is not on the way. A few Enough nuggets Nuggets can refer to several branches of interest:
In the final chapter, "What Next?", Williams writes: "Poor people have to be more cautious about how they spend their money if they want to survive." In addition, he announces, "The good news is that there is a formula for getting out of poverty today." The "magical steps," he says, are: "Finish high school, and much better, finish college; take a job and hold it, and have children 'only after you are twenty-one and married.'" All in all unsophisticated, Enough is a Facile presentation of the litany of social ills bedeviling African Americans. Williams never seriously tackles the last part of subtitle, "What We Can Do About It" Nor does he identify "We" or "It." --Reviewed by C. Gerald Fraser C. Gerald Fraser is a former New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times reporter. |
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