This author clearly holds white people in disdain, and fosters the attitude of many blacks that study,appreciation for the arts ,etc. somehow diminishes a black man and makes him too much like "whitey.". It is this very attitude of self segregation that leads to the gulf between the races that the author decries. One quickoy tires of "brother," "sistah," and all the other ghettoisms that the author relentlessly pushes down one's throat. This book does a disservice to the very people it tries to elevate and represent.