Ethelbert Haskins

Victim Psychosis in the Center City Ghettos Ethelbert Haskins

What is the ingredient in black culture and the counsel of the black leadership that impels its adherents to afflict their offspring with names such as Shemika Brown and Nairobi Jones while Hispanic and Asian-American parents choose appellations like John Perez and Jennifer Wong? The black names are designed to indicate clearly their authors' distrust and disdain for, and lack of intention to participate in, the popular sovereign-based meritocracy that American society has become. The latter ethnic names, by contrast, express the involved parents' agreement with the justness of the meritocratic proposition and their appreciation of the opportunity to live by its protocol.

In the light of such observations, however unpopular, this book challenges the current black agenda and calls for a restoration and inculcation of those values that in America have led to widespread achievement by members of every ethnic and racial group.