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Black Liberation theology actually encourages a victim mentality among blacks. John McWhorters' book Losing the Race, will be helpful here. Victimology, says McWhorter, is the adoption of victimhood as the core of one's identity--for example, like one who suffers through living in "a country and who lived in a culture controlled by rich white people." It is a subconscious, culturally inherited affirmation that life for Blacks in America has been in the past and will be in the future a life of being victimized by the oppression of Whites. In today's terms, it is the conviction that, forty years after...

How Losing the Race Changed My Life by Darryn "Dutch" Martin As one of her six children, the greatest gift I received from my dear, now-departed mother was an appreciation of the value of an education. This appreciation helped me rise from our poor surroundings in inner city Cleveland to become the successful black professional that I am today. Heeding this lesson, however, was also the genesis of years of verbal abuse, ostracism and criticism I was forced to endure from other black people - from elementary school through graduate school. During these years, I was accused by my black...

John McWhorter, author of Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority, is on C-SPAN now!

The guy seems worth listening to.

I was prepared not to like John McWhorter. After all, he's labeled by others as a conservative (although he calls himself a neo-conservative) and as such, I expected him to have horns and a tail. But the youngish-looking man who stepped off the elevator at the Omni Hotel looked like any other black man. Given his stature--he is associate professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley--I expected him to be arrogant or at least a little bit cocky. He was neither. While the presence of some black leaders can fill a room, McWhorter shied away from even...

March 2, 2003 Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority by John McWhorter —from the publisher's website Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off, this penetrating and profound collection of essays by the controversial thinker and passionate advocate for racial enlightenment and achievement explores what it means to be black in America today. According to the author, nearly forty years after the Civil Rights Act, African-Americans in this country still remain "a race apart." He feels that modern black Americans have internalized a tacit message: "authentically black" people stress initiative in private but cloak the...