Monday, September 28, 2009

"Black Lies, White Lies" Book


I've finished reading a remarkable book, by Tony Brown, called "Black Lies, White Lies". In it he lays out ideas as to how the Black community can empower itself economicly, and politicly. Interestingly, though he castigates the Black leadership for what he perceives to be socialism, his plans are actually like my own libertarian socialism. Though his system of thought can be more specificly described as being Black communalism. Mr. Brown bases this upon the Yoruba tribal concept of esusu. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/688620/esusu, as well as the Japanese concept of "jichikai", which are mutual help organizations. http://southernmutualhelp.org/nw.cfm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonarigumi Notabley, Tony Brown is a registered Republican. As a consequence he is oftentimes refered to as a "Black conservative". Now if his brand of conservatism is distinctly Black in nature, and I agree with his opinions, would that then make me a "White Black conservative"? It's something to think about. But as I stated above, I feel that though he likely does not realise it, Mr. Brown epitomises left-libertarianism. And also just as not all Democrats are liberals, not all Republicans need to be conservative. Whatever you want to call it, I feel that his principles of self reliance, and community investment, would not only be good for Blacks but for all Americans. And I wish him the best of luck in promoting his message in the Republican part, while I choose to do the same amongst Democrats.

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