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To Viola and Randolph, my mom and dad

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Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health-care crisis, unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between the rich and the poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

The Ten Things You Cant Say in America shows how the media, politicians (both Democrats and Republicans), schools, universities, and churches have ignored these problemsor often made them worse.

The well-intentioned though wrong-headed war against poverty, for example, actually encourages poverty. The war on drugs makes casualties of innocent citizens, making them increasingly vulnerable to gang and drug-related violence.

Race stories fill our newspapers. Police brutality. Racial profiling. DWB (driving while black). Cultural bias in standardized testing. Minority underrepresentation in colleges and universities. Different perceptions of the O. J. Simpson case along racial lines. The truth is, race relations in America have never been more cohesive. Considering the staggering diversity of its people, racism in todays America approaches insignificance. But if you are white and say this, youre a bigot. If youre black and say it,youre an Uncle Tom. Besides, theres good money in yelling racism.

Leaders fight crime by urging more gun control. To the anti-gun media, the gun lobby is not simply wrong when it says, more guns, less crime. They are evil, out-of-control cowboys responsible for the deaths of innocent handgun victims. Never mind that armed citizens thwart hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of crimes and assaults each year, often by simply brandishing a gun. Gun control laws mean innocents get controlled while the bad guys get the guns.

This book rips off the cover of political correctness. The Ten Things You Cant Say in America says out loud what most say across the kitchen table, shop floor, and at the water cooler. Something is wrong. Weve become a nation of victicrats. We demand government handouts, bailouts, loans, tax breaks, subsidies, special protections, and guaranties while refusing to accept responsibility for our own actions. We expect the government to do that which we could and should do ourselves.

The glass ceiling? Nonsense. Democrats vs. Republicans? Little difference between them. Hate crimes? All crimes are hateful. O. J. Simpson? He did it, and his defense team shamelessly used the black victicrat mentality to escape conviction.

The book speaks out against self-defeating and destructive political correctness, the liberal media, the phony health-care crisis, the job-destroying stupidity of minimum wage laws, the unconstitutional attack against smoking, and the blood on the hands of the good guys who want more and more gun control.

The Ten Things You Cant Say in America sets the record straight with facts, anecdotes, and common sense. It names names, corrects the record, and offers solutions.

The goal is simple. As Americans, we must refocus our energies. We must face and defeat the twin villainsa dependency-creating government and our refusal to accept responsibility for our own lives.

This book questions why the government takes so much of our money. It illustrates the damage to our national psyche when politicians pit group against group by giving some set-asides and other special privileges. It shows how the private, charitable sector can better address the needs of the poor and the sick than government.

Imagine a country where people who commit crimes actually get punished, where those who behave badly must own up to the consequences of their actions, and where a small and decent government allows citizens maximum personal and financial freedom. Imagine an America of the next centurya happier, fairer, more productive society.

We can get there, but not if we remain a country with ten things you cant say in America.

BLACKS ARE MORE RACIST THAN WHITES

Make no mistake about it. The Klan is alive and well in Southern California and there is a good chance that many of the CEOs who sit in powerful positions could either be Klan members or Klan sympathizers.

COLUMNIST FOR THE BLACK NEWS WEEKLY
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL

Larry Elder, is there a connection between your beliefs and the house and the white woman you have waiting for you in the hills?

A black man asked me that during a debate over whether Hollywood conspires to shut out blacks. I called the notion paranoid and was greeted with that rather charming question.

Unfortunately, the questioner was typical. Many American blacks falsely and unfairly accuse whites for black Americas plight. Bad schools? White racism. Crime? White racism. Under-performance on standardized tests? Racist or culturally biasedtests. Cant get a loan for a home or a new business? Racist lending officers, who would rather reject profit than give a black man a loan. Disproportionately high arrest rates? Racial profiling by racist cops.

To put it more bluntly, many blacks simply despise whites. They assume white bigotry and hostility toward blacks, and feelagainst all evidencethat white racism remains an intense and formidable obstacle. What nonsense. So convinced that white racism stops black progress, many blacks not only ignore obvious signs of progress, but viciously attack anyoneespecially someone blackwho dares challenge the theyre-out-to-get-us point of view. To hold the viewas I dothat racism no longer represents a serious threat to black upward mobility, to feel confident and positive about race relations in Americathat makes me a sellout. Thus, the questioners attack, not on my views, philosophy, or ideology, but on me personally.

I take three positions, earning the wrath of blacks. First, I repudiate the Johnnie Cochran doctrine. Recall that during the O. J. Simpson trial, defense attorney Cochran voiced the mantra of many black leaders when he said, Race plays a part of everything in America. Second, I oppose race- and gender-based affirmative action. And, third, I believe O. J. Simpson butchered two innocent human beings. For this, my people have called me the following:

Oreo. Uncle Tom. Boot-licking Uncle Tom. Straight-up Uncle Tom. Judas. Boy. Bug-eyed. Foot-shuffling. Sugarcane Negro. Handkerchief head. Trojan Horse. Anti-black. Pro-white. Remus. Sambo. Sambo-Tom. The Anti-Christ. Clarence Thomas supporter. Sniveling weasel. Evil. Ass-kisser. Coconut. Wannabe white. Nickering nabob of negativity. And this is just an abbreviated list.

How dare I suggest that the fate of blacks is, well, in the hands of blacks!

Many blacks, encouraged by the so-called black leadership, view life starkly. Us against them. Black versus white. Rich versuspoor. Key is the following assumption: that whites encourage, endorse, perpetuate, welcome, are happy about, and take pride in the oppression of blacks. Challenge the traditional white-man-done-me-wrong-and-continues-to-do-so mentality, and some blacks go absolutely crazy.

What about black Atlanta mayor Bill Campbells over-the-top defense of affirmative action? Everybody who is a person of color in this country has benefited from affirmative action. Theres not been anybody who has gotten into college on their own, nobody whos gotten a job on their own, no one whos prospered as a businessman or businesswoman on their own without affirmative action.

Hysterical. How else to describe how some blacks reacted to the California debate on affirmative action? Students at a local college there, Cal State Northridge, decided to host a debate over Proposition 209, a ballot initiative to exclude race and gender as a consideration in public hiring, public contracting, and admissions into state colleges and universities. For the pro-affirmative-action side, they selected a black veteran civil rights activist in Los Angeles. To defend the anti-affirmative-action position, they invited David Duke! Thats right. David Duke. See, anyone opposing affirmative action therefore supports racism, Jim Crow, lynchings, hangings, police brutality, and the Klan. Why, if the anti-affirmative-action folks could, they would reenact slavery, take away the womens vote, and deregulate cable. Quick, somebody stop them! Is this not racist?

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