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While African Americans Slept: Leadership by ParasitesA Synopsis Chapter One Introduction: A synopsis of each chapter begins with a verbatim quote of the first paragraph of that chapter or a significant portion of the first paragraph. “Our kids have been allowed to butcher the English language, allowed to worship a trinity of hip hop, a prison culture, a culture of violence, allowed to grow up in an environment where problems are solved by violence and murder, allowed to grow up harboring disrespect for their own children, women and men, allowed to grow up without inculcating in them a civilized value system, allowed to grow up worshiping material wealth and threats and admiring the fast buck artist, allowed to grow up in an environment where survival too often is based on brute, nihilistic values, where the good student is accused of `being, thinking, and acting white,’ where single mothers try to control their children based on “time out” theories of white suburban psychologists, and allowed to grow up living in an environment where life is nasty, cruel, brutish and short.” (p. 7)
In this introductory chapter, I explain the problems facing black Americans, what the goal of education should be and then discuss what the philosophical goals of African American leadership should be. I end the chapter with a call for accountability of African American leadership.
Chapter Two: Diversity vs Multiculturalism: “Want to destroy a great country? Here’s the way to do it:Adopt multiculturalism as a mantra, require the government to place every language, every custom of every immigrant on equal footing with America’s and every language on equal footing with the English language, sanctify every group that speaks a different language or has a different culture, custom, and mores and award them with a Certificate of Multiculturalism Equality, require every state to adopt bilingualism, biculturalism, and multiculturalism as state policy, adopt dual citizenship as a national policy, declare anyone a `racist’ who thinks there is such a thing as an illegal immigrant, force every grade school student to shout—after saluting the flag--`nadie es illegal’ [nothing is illegal] and declare multiculturalism as the official government policy in relationship to non-English speaking people.” (p-12) In this chapter, I explain the distinction and difference between the concept of diversity of groups within a polity, where each group is permitted to maintain its customs while maintaining sole loyalty to America and multiculturalism where loyalty is to the group, not the nation. Diversity has been our national policy, albeit not without conflicts, since the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution. Multiculturalism on the other hand places loyalty, language, and custom above loyalty to America first. I explain that diversity not division is and should be the goal of America, but that multiculturalism inevitably forces division because it posits primary loyalty to one’s tribe, group, culture, language, and traditions above putting America first. Our universities have confused, contorted, and conflated these two terms. I explain that we must embrace diversity without division while eschewing multiculturalism. It is important to note that multicultural is not the same as multiculturalism. The former is a reality, e.g. diversity, while the latter is a nationalism of fools by domestic, internal groups. Finally, I provide a personal example of the destructiveness of multiculturalism.
