Enough The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It

Half a century after brave Americans took to the streets to raise the bar of opportunity for all races, Juan Williams writes that too many black Americans are in crisis-caught in a twisted hip-hop culture, dropping out of school, ending up in jail, having babies when they are not ready to be parents, and falling to the bottom in twenty-first-century global economic competition. The causes are complex-and owe much to stubborn racism-but one key source of this malaise, Williams argues, is that African Americans have abandoned the values that sustained traditional black culture: self-reliance, education, creativity, community, and decisive action. As vehemently debated as the speech by Bill Cosby that inspired it, Enough is a bold, solution-based look at the obstacles that stand in the way of African Americans' full participation in the nation's freedom and prosperity. Book jacket.

Juan Williams is a senior correspondent for NPR®. He is also a political analyst for the Fox News Channel and a panelist on Fox News Sunday. He is the author of Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary and Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, among other books. During his twenty-one year career at The Washington Post, Williams served as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, and White House correspondent. He lives in Washington, D.C.


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