Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in America

This is an excellent collection of essays from black conservative scholars, activists, public servants, writers and students who refuse to be sucked into modern-day black groupthink. Upon reading this book I felt encouraged and invigorated in my own newfound conservative beliefs as a black man in America. What is particularly refreshing about this book is its non-conformist tone: the essayists are strong-willed people who do not need the "acceptance" of their liberal black peers - or the black community as a whole for that matter! - and who are not afraid to openly challenge today's black so-called "leadership." Furthermore, they have logic, objectivity, erudtion and empirical facts on their side, something most black liberals are sorely lacking. This is a great piece of work, and I highly recommend it.

For the past few decades, right-leaning minorities have beensubjected to de facto censorship, as a result of a media culture thathas marginalized them just as effectively as - if not more so than - they have silencened their white conservative brethren. Now, via Stan Faryna's groundbreaking book, those conservative minorities who have heretofore escaped media attention will rise up from anonymity and take their rightful place as shapers of American political debate. A wonderful vindication of the efforts of Booker T. Washington, George Schulyer and all of the valiant conservative minorities who "paved the way" for our current recognition.

As I once heard Jesse Jackson say, "The rising tide lifts all theboats." I see Stan Faryna in the role that Walter Mosely played in the case of Paul Coates and Black Classic Press. Few people outside of a small circle of blacks knew anything about Paul Coates and Black Classic Press... Coates' book towed other black books out of the back waters and into the main headwaters. I suspect that "Black and Right" will do this too. This is an important book showcasing some of the new voices from the black right. It is so important, "Dunbar on Black Books" is giving this book a great deal of attention. We published an interview with Stan Faryna in the May issue of "Dunbar On Black Books." We also plan to have annotations of selected chapters of this courageous new book in four or more forthcoming issues. This kind of attention to a single book is unprecendented in our pages. Since the first issue of "Dunbar On Black Books," we have cited some 428 books, but we have not given such attention to any other book. That is how important "Black And Right" is, and at a time when Americans may be ready to seriously discuss race relations!

Better than home-made sweet potato pie is a book that you're proud to own and glad you read. Black and Right is that kind of book. A book about the real issues important to our progress has been wanted for a long time. I'm impressed by the talent in Black and Right. I enjoyed Justice Clarence Thomas' essay, "No Room at the Inn." The interview with Ezola Foster was fascinating. She is a wise woman. The other essays were also of high quality. Thank you all for this special gift, and congratulations!

Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in AmericaEdited by Stan Faryna, Brad Stetson, and Joseph G. ContiPraeger Publishing, May 1997ISBN # 0-275-95342-4 For the first time in a book of academic value and easy accessibility, several black conservative voices now disclose their experience, their history, and their vision for tomorrow. Essays by Gary Franks, Glenn Loury, and Justice Clarence Thomas are just a few of the prominent writings featured in this timely and supreme line-up of writings by the new black leadership and other experts. These essays can be found in the paradigm-shattering pages of Black and Right: The Bold New Voice of Black Conservatives in America. Anticipating America's renewed fascination with the heritage, future, and voice of black America, Black and Right promises to be a significant contribution without equal for American studies, thought, and political life. "Black and Right is one bold, giant step in the noble undertaking that will impress an inspired understanding of black America upon the minds of all Americans," explains George Mason University Law School Professor Joseph Broadus, a contributor to Black and Right. "This important collection of essays presents the emerging leaders of a new epoch in the saga of African-American Liberation. For too long, the Left beat the dominant publicity drum, while in its heart the black community has marched rightward. Now, new voices articulate those old dreams in a tone no longer muted by the protective coloration of political correctness," said Professor Broadus. Edited by Stan Faryna, Brad Stetson, and Joseph G. Conti, Black and Right tells the unheard story of the devastating impact that dependency and group thinking have had upon the black community. As Dr. Walter Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, argues: "If one deliberately set out to sabotage black socio-economic progress, he could not have found a more effective means than many of the government policies started in the sixties and seventies." "Black and Right is the long overdue antidote to the harmful conventional wisdom that formed the justification for those policies," claims Dr. Williams. Indeed, this book is not just a cry in the wilderness. "It discloses concrete solutions that illuminate the road to the Promised Land," says Stan Faryna, co-editor of Black and Right and Director of Research for the New Coalition of Economic and Social Change, an Afro American think tank in Chicago. Black and Right recommends a high moral road of unlimited opportunity for all Americans. Diann E. Cameron, C.S.W., Director of Counseling Programs at The Albert G. Oliver Program, Inc. and contributor, comments: "Black and Right brings an important viewpoint to the public square. It is a viewpoint that was once ignored in the mainstream media. These voices reflect a common sense and intelligence that is shared by black Americans across the country." "Tho