The Myths That Divide Us - How Lies Have Poisoned Race Relations In America

by John Perazzo

 

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"Black Americans cannot succeed because our country is racist."

If you're like many others, this statement doesn't sit well with you. Yet many contemporary civil-rights leaders claim that it's the tragic truth. How can you counter the inflammatory charge that we live in a racist nation, a country of victims and victimizers?

John Perazzo's powerful and timely book, The Myths That Divide Us, ( Click here to save up to $20.00 off list price ) gives you the answers. This book has drawn rave reviews from such eminent commentators as Dr. Walter E. Williams, David Horowitz, Michael Medved, and George Gilder. In it, you discover how black-white relations are sabotaged by demagogues who mischaracterize our country as racist. You see their false claims demolished by solid evidence. Drawing on mountains of important sociological research, Perazzo demonstrates that the most serious social and economic problems currently afflicting black Americans are not due to societal racism but to issues within the black community. Just consider a few of the hundreds of remarkable facts his book gives you:

Countless studies show that fatherlessness, not race, is by far the most accurate predictor that a child will end up in poverty or in prison. And today, about 70 percent of black children are born into fatherless homes.

70 percent of long-term prison inmates, and 70 percent of juveniles in reform institutions, were raised without a father.

85 percent of all black children living in poverty are raised in single-parent homes.

The incomes of fatherless black families are only about one-fourth as high as the incomes of two-parent black families. A similar disparity exists among white one- and
two-parent families.

Ever since 1981, black families with two college-educated, working adults have earned more than similar white families in every age group and in every region of the United States. As early as 1970, black two-parent families outside of the South were already earning more than comparable white families.

Black full-time workers today earn slightly more than white workers of the same age, sex, and I.Q.

Black defendants are slightly less likely to be prosecuted and convicted of felonies than white defendants charged with similar crimes.

Though blacks commit more than half of our nation's murders, nearly 60 % of all Death Row inmates are white.

94 % of all black homicide victims are slain by other blacks.

Violent white criminals select black victims for just 3 % of their crimes, while black criminals choose white victims for 54 % of their crimes. All told, 89 % of all interracial violence is black-on-white.

Because of affirmative action, black applicants are much more likely than white applicants to be admitted to the college of their choice, even though whites score about 200 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Affirmative action has heightened racial tensions while doing virtually nothing to improve the economic condition of black Americans. Black economic progress was already well underway and proceeding at a brisk pace long before affirmative action even existed.

Black progress in such realms as income, high-school graduation rates, life-expectancy, and home ownership was faster between 1940 and 1970 than after the rise of affirmative action in the early 1970s.

Though significant numbers of blacks surveyed perceive that white society strives to limit their opportunities and civil rights, polls show that racist white attitudes have diminished remarkably in recent decades. For example, 93 % of eligible whites say they would be willing to vote for a black presidential candidate, and scarcely 1 in 100 whites favors racial discrimination against blacks in the workplace.

Perazzo further shows that many of those who focused world attention on the evils of South African apartheid are silent about the far greater atrocities perpetrated by black governments on black victims throughout Africa. You learn that even under apartheid, more blacks actually moved into South Africa than left it -- because the economic and social conditions in neighboring African nations were worse. And you discover that many denouncers of past centuries' white-on-black enslavement remain silent about the black-on-black servitude which pervaded Africa during the very same epoch, and which still exists in several African nations today. This book's vivid narrative of Africa's horrific black-on-black atrocities, which have been utterly ignored by virtually all civil-rights leaders of our day, make for an unforgettable reading experience.

The Myths That Divide Us ( Click here to save up to $20.00 off list price ) provides the knowledge you need in order to refute the false, divisive charge that ours is a racist nation. It demonstrates that America is in fact the least racist white-majority society on earth; that our country provides greater legal protections for minorities than any other society; and that it offers more opportunity to a greater number of black people than any other place on earth, including all the nations of Africa combined. "The truth will set us free," says Perazzo. Our racial divisions are entirely remediable, but only if we have the courage to reject the widely accepted lie that all black troubles are due to white racism."


Reviews

"John Perazzo has marshaled compelling facts and persuasive arguments showing that what was once a moral struggle for civil rights has turned into a racial spoils system. The Myths That Divide Us shows where we've gone wrong and what needs to be done to accomplish the original goals of the civil-rights movement."
--Dr. Walter E. Williams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University

"John Perazzo's book blasts us beyond the myths of 'racism' with a shocking incandescence of truth that will inspire all who do not have a political stake in the lies of hate."
--George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty

"Perazzo exposes the hypocrisies of 'civil rights leaders' like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, and Leonard Jeffries in the most devastating of ways—by using their own words and deeds. His case is backed by a seemingly endless string of anecdotes, facts, and statistics. This book is well researched and a valuable resource for anyone involved in the race debate."
--Andrew Oliver, National Review

"The myth that most divides us is the myth that whites are relentlessly racist, that virtually all the failures of blacks can be explained by the anti-black malice that permeates America. John Perazzo dissects this myth with the coolness of a surgeon and the passion of a patriot. Our country can make no progress in race relations until we grasp the hard truths this book so eloquently lays bare."
--Jared Taylor, author of Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America

"This unsettling but important book brings to bear clear thinking, common sense, and extensive research to puncture some of the most comfortable and pernicious lies of our time. Ultimately, The Myths That Divide Us is an explosive book not because its main points are so outrageous, but because they are so obvious."
--Michael Medved, author, film critic, and radio host

"The Myths That Divide Us is a monumentally important book. The truth is finally being told, and it is the truth that will set people free. Thank you, John Perazzo, for your honesty and courage."
--Rev. Jesse Peterson, president of Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny

"An important book. . . . You don't want to miss it."
--David Horowitz, author of Radical Son

"John Perazzo's The Myths That Divide Us attempts to restore common sense and decency to issues lost in a sea of wishful, self-serving thinkers."
--Phil Mushnick, New York Post

"This book should be required reading for anyone befuddled by a half-century of race-oriented public policy. Perazzo skillfully replaces your confusion with reality-based clarity. Be prepared. The book is stunningly honest."
--Emanuel McLittle, president of Destiny Communications

The following review of "The Myths That Divide Us"
appeared in Independent Publisher magazine:

This book will make many people very unhappy. John Perazzo has written a profound and well-argued expose of today's civil rights leaders "who, under the guise of brotherhood, have made an art form of fomenting interracial enmity." Instead of working towards racial harmony in America, Perazzo asserts, many civil rights leaders actively promote an agenda of hatred and division for their own selfish purposes, knowing full well that their own actions and words actually harm the very people they profess to help.

 

Perazzo is a skilled writer who puts forth a most convincing argument that Martin Luther King's dream and worthy principles of racial harmony have been suborned and perverted by self-serving civil rights leaders who find racist bugaboos everywhere, everyday, to justify their own positions, power, financial backing, and political influence. Moreover, he shows how any critic who challenges them is immediately labeled a racist.

The myths that Perazzo describes have purposely been created to exploit the vulnerability of blacks and whites to believe that all whites are guilty, that somehow all the problems associated with being black are the white man's fault. Perazzo exposes the double standard of civil rights leaders who howl in protest over white-on-black violence, but who remain strangely silent regarding equally vicious black-on-white violence. These same civil rights leaders who vigorously protested South Africa's apartheid policy have never criticized, but actually embraced, black African nations where tyranny, bloodshed, and slavery are still big business. Perazzo also debunks the absurd conspiracy myths that AIDS is a white-inspired form of racial genocide, and that racially motivated crimes are an exclusively white phenomenon.

Case by case, Perazzo reveals the duplicity, double standard, and outright charade of civil rights leaders who "have taught an entire generation of black youth to see racism everywhere," even where it doesn't exist. He provides numerous startling examples of race-baiting by Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and many others whose livelihood is based on "the continued existence of social injustice." This book is a disturbing and thought-provoking story that will certainly wake up some folks.