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Betrayed - A History Of Presidential Failure To Protect Black Lives (Hardcover)
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Betrayed - A History Of Presidential Failure To Protect Black Lives (Hardcover)
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In this timely and eye-opening book, noted political analyst and
media commentator Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson traces the root cause
of the White House's failure to protect the rights of African
Americans. Drawing extensively from public and private presidential
papers, private correspondence, personal interviews, and national
archive documents, Hutchinson gives a rich historical account of
the racial philosophy, policies, and practices of successive
presidents from Warren G. Harding to Bill Clinton. Franklin D.
Roosevelt is one example. The popular view is that Roosevelt was a
Mend to blacks because of his enactment of New Deal programs. But
he was also a prisoner of the biased racial thinking of his times.
He refused to actively support antilynching legislation and
repeatedly curried political favor with racist southern Democrats.
Lyndon B. Johnson is yet another example. He is known as a champion
of civil rights, but Hutchinson details two crucial moments when
Johnson shrank from using the full force of executive power to push
Congress to enact new and tougher federal criminal civil rights
statutes to punish racist violence. In this book, Hutchinson
reveals that no American president has ever signed into law a
federal antilynching bill despite a 50-year campaign by the NAACP
for presidential and congressional action. He documents how Nixon,
Reagan, and Bush rolled back civil rights and affirmative action,
failed to fully enforce equal protection provisions of the
Fourteenth Amendment against police abuse and racial violence,
encouraged conservative legal obstructionism, and fueled the rise
of a repressive domestic security state. These actions in turn have
reinforced institutionalized racism and continued the historical
pattern of devaluing black lives in law and public policy. Finally,
Hutchinson warns that the century-old failure by the White House to
enforce federal law to protect black lives still has dangerous
consequences for American society.
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