African American Self Sabotage - In Depth Analysis of Losing the Race by John McWhorter

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Often individuals will call attention to the hardships that they (or their ancestors) have endured as a means of fostering and nurturing “an unfocused brand of resentment and sense of alienation” rather than for forging solutions. According to McWhorter, Victimology stems from a lethal combination of an “inherited inferiority complex with the privilege of dressing down the former oppressor”, and so African Americans find it necessary to highlight the inadequacies of others in order to detract attention from the inadequacies within themselves...
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It is this cultural insecurity that causes the African American race to “downplay and detract attention from its victories” and to uphold a conviction “that forty years after the Civil Rights Act, the conditions for blacks have not changed substantially enough to mention.” Despite having under 25 percent of black Americans living in poverty, a 200 percent increase from 1960 to 1990 in the amount of black professionals such as doctors and lawyers, over 41 black congressmen in 1995, 15...
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