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Thank you for not being afraid to tell the truth. Racial discrimination is not eliminated by replacing it with discrimination against another group. It also is not improved by treating any group like they are incapable.

After reading Coulter\’s book, I\’m pretty much ashamed I was ever apart of the Liberal Party. I\’m proud of being a black American and I\’ll never look at the media in same light again.

I rather enjoyed the book. It shows how the left media manipulates the people into a self-loathing state and perpetuates a false image of minorities and caucasians in typecasted rolls of \”the oppressed victims\” and \”the oppressive perpetrators\” respectively.

I\’m not as interested in the politics of race relations as I am in the social impacts, but often the two are inseparable in regards to this subject. So I found this book informative and interesting. Ann Coulter is, of course, a Fox News anchor and an obvious Republican, and quite a bit of this book was aimed toward slinging insults at the Democratic party. Fair enough in this case, although she does skip over some of the Republican transgressions in this area. However, I knew this would be the format of the book when I bought it, so I can\’t complain. Besides, by and large, I do agree with her that the vast majority of harm in the area has been done by left leaning liberals. Being a media personality herself, Ann does concentrate quite a bit on the media\’s role in agitating racial \”problems\” that didn\’t exist until the media declared it was a problem and whipped up sentiment to that effect. She brings up a plethora of legal cases, weighing the real evidence and court findings against the liberal media\’s coverage and \”community\” reaction based on media coverage. Much of this was new information for me, and I enjoyed her insight. She was also surprisingly funny at times, and that was a bonus. My problem with this book is simply that it will probably not be enjoyed by those with liberal/Democrat political leanings, and they are the very ones who need to be made aware that pandering does no one any good, least of all those who are being pandered to. In that respect, she will be, by and large, preaching to the choir with this book, since most of her readers will be prepared to believe (or already know) her subject matter. She is so antagonistic toward liberal Democrats that I can\’t see any of them sitting through this book with an open mind. If the subject of racial demagoguery interests you, and you want to hear the facts from a somewhat less politically motivated writer, I would suggest reading Thomas Sowell\’s brilliant book \”Black Rednecks and White Liberals\” which takes the history of the problem back further and goes into more depth. It doesn\’t concentrate quite so much on media involvement and more on the historical and social aspects leading up to more current events. Mr. Sowell also has the added credibility of being a black man from Harlem and a world renowned economist. Ms Coulter does reference this book a few times, as the material is very similar in nature. Ann Coulter did a good job of reading her own material, though not perfect, although I think that the few (very few) faults I found in her performance would not have been an issue with better editing. Overall, a very good book, but if you don\’t already lean toward conservatism, it probably isn\’t for you.

Great reader she is, and yet the story mid-way was hard for me to pay attention to. The theme is using black Americans for political and monetary gain and it\’s right on the $.

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