Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this provocative
expose of the class and generational divide that is tearing black
America apart. Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in
black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault
on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the spring of
2004. The comedian-cum-social critic lamented the lack of
parenting, poor academic performance, sexual promiscuity, and
criminal behaviour among what he called the knuckleheads" of the
African-American community. Even more surprising than his comments,
however, was the fact that his audience laughed and applauded.
best-selling writer, preacher, and scholar Michael Eric Dyson uses
the Cosby brouhaha as a window on a growing cultural divide within
the African-American community. According to Dyson, the
Afristocracy",lawyers, physicians, intellectuals, bankers, civil
rights leaders, entertainers, and other professionals,looks with
disdain upon the black poor who make up the Ghettocracy",single
mothers on welfare, the married, single, and working poor, the
incarcerated, and a battalion of impoverished children. Dyson
explains why the black middle class has joined mainstream America
to blame the poor for their troubles, rather than tackling the
systemic injustices that shape their lives. He exposes the flawed
logic of Cosby's diatribe and offers a principled defence of the
wrongly maligned black citizens at the bottom of the social totem
pole. Displaying the critical prowess that has made him the
nation's preeminent spokesman for the hip-hop generation, Dyson
challenges us all,black and white,to confront the social problems
that the civil rights movement failed to solve.
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