Seeds-of-Racism-in-the-Soul-of-America

"This book will be hotly debated, but we need such debates in order to shake ourselves out of the lethargy about who we are as a nation and how we got this way."

--Gayraud S. Wilmore, from the Foreword

White liberals once marched arm-in-arm with black activists during the civil rights era. Since the 1970s, however, such cooperation has dwindled. Why? Because some Northern white liberals, author Paul Griffin believes, carry the seeds of racism.

In this historical analysis of racism in America, Griffin examines the subtle, insidious discrimination practiced by those who purport to be broad-minded and enlightened. He traces the seeds of racism from the pious New England Puritans who sought to explain the different stations of the races as God’s arrangement to today's white liberals and feminists who may support affirmative action only because they still believe that African Americans (and other minorities) are inferior. Griffin's book dares to expose the racism that was implanted in this nation from its founding--and which continues to bear bitter fruit to this day.