Jonfaith's Reviews > Race Matters

Humility is the fruit of inner security and wise maturity. To be humble is to be so sure of one’s self and one’s mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one’s self and status.

The inspiration for reading occurred to early this morning as my wife and I walked across he pedestrian bridge to Louisville. That location is by the the most cosmopolitan location in the metropolitan area.

I wanted more poetry in his argumentation, though I concede that this is a primer for popular consumption. My edition had new forwards and a new epilogue. West's theses appear to have continued in the near thirty years since its publication, a growing black middle class still has to conform to regulations of acceptance, chiefly that black sexuality is left unspoken in polite society. The growing black underclass struggling with nihilism and still awaits prophetic leadership , self-love and then need for class-born alliances with other marginalized groups.