By Robert L. Woodson Sr.
Book Review: Red, White, and Black
This must read book captures “why” in its subtitle – “Rescuing American History from Revisionist and Race Hustlers”.
Robert Woodson is the editor of this book of essays by over 20 black leaders and scholars from all segments of society. Mr. Woodson founded the Woodson Center in the 1960’s for “poverty alleviation and empowering disadvantaged communities to become agents of their own uplift”. His philosophy is the approach to help by teaching and giving a “hand up” and not just a “hand out”.
This book is powerful in telling the TRUE American story (both good and bad). The essays by Wilfred Reilly, Dr. Carol Swain and John Sibley Butler are especially powerful. Rather than givemy opinions let me just quote from the dustcover of the book.
In the rush to redefine the place of black Americans in contemporary society, many radical activists and academics have mounted a campaign to destroy traditional American history and replace it with a politized version that few would recognize. According to the new radical orthodoxy, the United States was founded as a racist nation—and everything that has happened throughout our history must be viewed through the lens of systematic oppression of black people.
Rejecting this false narrative, a collection of the most prominent and respected black scholars and thinkers has come together to correct the record and tell the true story of black Americans in all its complexity, diversity of experience, and poignancy.
Collectively, they paint a vivid picture of black people living the grand American experience, however bumpy the road may be along the way. But rather than a people apart, blacks are woven into the united whole that makes this nation unique in history.
