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This 6 page paper provides a thoughtful look at this controversial book. This paper takes a liberal view. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Race (Chideya). McWhorter happens to be a fellow with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank (Chideya). In fact, many of the thoughts from McWhorters book Losing
the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America is aligned with the idea that black people in society see themselves as victims and that they really are not faced with hardships. At
least, the hardships are exaggerated. In regard to modern life, the author explain that "victimhood is simply called attention to where it barely exists at all" (McWhorter 2). McWhorter does
not make random statements. He backs his observations up with facts. For example, he provided an example of a girl who attended Stanford University and claimed her white professor told
her to drop a math class due to prejudice against African Americans (McWhorter 4). McWhorter does not believe the story and after digging into it finds that she herself admitted
she was not good at math early on (McWhorter 4). This is just one example. The book is replete with stories of how much has been made of the fact
that black people faced prejudice when this is really not the case. The book Losing the Race is controversial. After all, decades have gone by with many of the
problems in the black community magnified and tied to race relations. Yet, one has to wonder whether or not McWhorter is really seeing things objectively. Many white people see things
in the same way. They are put off by affirmative action and only see it as a form of reverse discrimination. They claim that black people are not discriminated against,
but how can they know that if they are white. This is a discussion that takes place across the country in many classrooms. Black people experience many things in life
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