In 1995 D'Souza published
The End of Racism, in which he claimed that exaggerated claims of racism are holding back progress among African Americans in the US. He defended the Southern slave owners and said, "The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well."
[52] D'Souza also called for a repeal of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, and argued: "Given the intensity of black rage and its appeal to a wide constituency, whites are right to be nervous. Black rage is a response to black suffering and failure, and reflects the irresistible temptation to attribute African American problems to a history of white racist oppression."
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A reviewer for
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education responded to the book by posting a list of sixteen recent racist incidents against black people.
[54] Michael Bérubé, in a lengthy review article, referred to the book as "encyclopedic pseudoscience", calling it illogical and saying some of the book's policy recommendations are fascist; he stated that it is "so egregious an affront to human decency as to set a new and sorry standard for 'intellectual'".
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The book was also panned by many other critics: John David Smith, in
The Journal of Southern History, said D'Souza claims blacks are inferior and opines that "D'Souza bases his terribly insensitive, reactionary polemic on sound bite statistical and historical evidence, frequently gleaned out of context and patched together illogically. His book is flawed because he ignores the complex causes and severity of white racism, misrepresents Boas's arguments, and undervalues the matrix of ignorance, fear, and long-term economic inequality that he dubs black cultural pathology. How, according to his own logic, can allegedly inferior people uplift themselves without government assistance?" He adds that D'Souza's "biased diatribe trivializes serious pathologies, white and black, and adds little to our understanding of America's painful racial dilemma".
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it's your choice...no one got a gun to ya head. if both parties have horrible choices pick a third party...
