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Progressive Racism
Progressive Racism is about the transformation of the civil rights movement from a cause opposing racism—the denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color - into a movement endorsing race preferences and privileges for select groups based on their skin color. It describes the tragic changes of this cause under the leadership of racial extortionists like Al Sharpton, who took a movement in support of American pluralism and turned it into a movement governed by a lynch mob mentality in which white Americans are regarded as guilty before the fact and African Americans are regarded as innocent even when the facts prove them guilty, even when their crimes are committed against other African Americans.
The author of Progressive Racism , David Horowitz, is a witness to these events and betrayals. Horowitz was a participant in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and in 2001 led a national campaign against a proposal for “slavery reparations” that would have required Hispanic, Asian and other Americans who had no role in slavery to pay reparations to African Americans who were never slaves.
Progressive Racism examines how the term “racism” has been drained of its original meaning and is now used as a weapon to bludgeon opponents into silence. It describes how the so-called civil rights movement has become an oppressor of African Americans by supporting a failed school system that blights the lives of millions of African American children and a welfare system that has destroyed the black family and created a “underclass” dependent on government charity. It is an indictment of the hypocrisy that today governs discourse on race issues, so that a lynch mob in Ferguson, Missouri seeking to hang a police officer because he was white can be described as a civil rights protest and be supported by the first African American president of the United States.
The author of Progressive Racism , David Horowitz, is a witness to these events and betrayals. Horowitz was a participant in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and in 2001 led a national campaign against a proposal for “slavery reparations” that would have required Hispanic, Asian and other Americans who had no role in slavery to pay reparations to African Americans who were never slaves.
Progressive Racism examines how the term “racism” has been drained of its original meaning and is now used as a weapon to bludgeon opponents into silence. It describes how the so-called civil rights movement has become an oppressor of African Americans by supporting a failed school system that blights the lives of millions of African American children and a welfare system that has destroyed the black family and created a “underclass” dependent on government charity. It is an indictment of the hypocrisy that today governs discourse on race issues, so that a lynch mob in Ferguson, Missouri seeking to hang a police officer because he was white can be described as a civil rights protest and be supported by the first African American president of the United States.
320 pages, Hardcover
First published March 22, 2016
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David Horowitz
187 books338 followersDavid Joel Horowitz was an American conservative writer and activist. He was a founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC); editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left. Horowitz also founded the organization Students for Academic Freedom.
Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon.
From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.
Horowitz wrote several books with author Peter Collier, including four on prominent 20th-century American families. He and Collier have collaborated on books about cultural criticism. Horowitz worked as a columnist for Salon.
From 1956 to 1975, Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left. He later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism. Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.
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September 28, 2016
This is a collection of articles Horowitz has written about racism over the past decades. He organized them into various categories, but even so, the flow is, by nature, uneven with a lot of repetitive information and arguments. That said; the book is filled with detailed historical and current information which allows one to get a pretty good picture of race issues in America and how they have been exasperated by progressives.
I’m guessing about 80% of the book demonstrates how progressives have created divisiveness in the country to gain political power for themselves. Progressives always separate individuals into groups based upon culture, race, gender, and class. Then they assign victimhood to each; and purchase their loyalty by providing each group with handouts and special privileges, but always with the goal of squashing them deeper into their victimhood where they will be reliable progressive voters. The heart of America is the individual equality, regardless of race, gender, etc. that united Americans into this great nation. Election after election and year after year, progressives maintain a sense of victimhood and present themselves as the only possible way out. However, history shows that they never keep their promises. This is a diabolical form of racism and bigotry.
I was born in 1944. I have watched politics since the late 1950’s. No group singled out by progressives for their help and special privileges has seen their lives improved. The only thing that has changed over the years is that new groups have been added, and each group has become more and more dependent upon progressives and their promises. They even create diminutive, strawmen issues like convincing young women who can’t get free condoms from the government that they are victims. They need progressives so they can be entitled to those free condoms.
Horowitz was a liberal at one time, but he soon saw that liberal policies were designed to hold people in the victim lifestyle with a false belief that only liberals and progressives could lead them to a better life, which has never happened. The more people who can be enticed into seeing themselves as victims, the more powerful progressives become. To help a group out of their perceived victimhood would be counterproductive to maintaining the progressive power base, so no true help is forthcoming – not from progressives.
I’m guessing about 80% of the book demonstrates how progressives have created divisiveness in the country to gain political power for themselves. Progressives always separate individuals into groups based upon culture, race, gender, and class. Then they assign victimhood to each; and purchase their loyalty by providing each group with handouts and special privileges, but always with the goal of squashing them deeper into their victimhood where they will be reliable progressive voters. The heart of America is the individual equality, regardless of race, gender, etc. that united Americans into this great nation. Election after election and year after year, progressives maintain a sense of victimhood and present themselves as the only possible way out. However, history shows that they never keep their promises. This is a diabolical form of racism and bigotry.
I was born in 1944. I have watched politics since the late 1950’s. No group singled out by progressives for their help and special privileges has seen their lives improved. The only thing that has changed over the years is that new groups have been added, and each group has become more and more dependent upon progressives and their promises. They even create diminutive, strawmen issues like convincing young women who can’t get free condoms from the government that they are victims. They need progressives so they can be entitled to those free condoms.
Horowitz was a liberal at one time, but he soon saw that liberal policies were designed to hold people in the victim lifestyle with a false belief that only liberals and progressives could lead them to a better life, which has never happened. The more people who can be enticed into seeing themselves as victims, the more powerful progressives become. To help a group out of their perceived victimhood would be counterproductive to maintaining the progressive power base, so no true help is forthcoming – not from progressives.
June 17, 2016
The book is good but authors should let buyers know that the book is a collection of editorial articles BEFORE the book is purchased
September 22, 2018
David Horowitz writes with astonishing clarity. I am a few years younger than the author, but find each chapter of the book bringing into focus events that I first learned of via the mainstream media. His insights are what I have come to appreciate as honest and well-reasoned. I have not yet read a word of this set that I have not found profoundly illuminating.
June 27, 2017
Superbly written, and absolutely necessary reading if you think you have an opinion of any kind on race in this country.
March 4, 2021
Ain't it the truth!
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