{"id":754,"date":"2013-02-13T20:34:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/?p=754"},"modified":"2013-02-13T20:34:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T01:34:44","slug":"a-review-of-david-horowitzs-and-john-perazzos-black-skin-privilege-and-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/attheintersectionoffaithandculture\/2013\/02\/a-review-of-david-horowitzs-and-john-perazzos-black-skin-privilege-and-the-american-dream.html","title":{"rendered":"A Review of David Horowitz’s and John Perazzo’s “Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream”"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Benghazi to Obamacare and a staggering array of things in between, President Obama appears invulnerable when it comes to the potential disasters that have marked his presidency. That the vast majority of those in the media share his left-wing politics partially explains this\u2014but only <\/em>partially.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the full story behind the Teflon nature of Obama\u2019s administration, it is to David Horowitz and John Perazzo that we must turn.\u00a0 And once we do, there can no longer remain any doubt that it is the President\u2019s share of melanin that accounts for his seeming impenetrability to the sort of scrutiny and criticism to which a white president, regardless of party affiliation, would have been subjected.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t principally upon Obama that Horowitz and Perazzo set their sights. In 35 short pages, their Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream <\/em>(BSP<\/em>) enlists every syllable into the service of proving its thesis: contemporary American (and other Western) blacks are simply held to a vastly lower standard than whites.<\/p>\n

The phrase \u201cblack<\/em> skin privilege\u201d is a play upon \u201cwhite<\/em> skin privilege,\u201d a standard leftist buzzword that has long since functioned as the explanatory key among academics for accounting for the world\u2019s evils, \u201cfor everything that was racially wrong \u00a0in America beginning with its constitutional founding.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Horowitz and Perazzo expose this for the drivel that it is while proving that if there is any \u201cskin\u201d that is privileged in today\u2019s America, it is black, not white.\u00a0 The authors are blunt: \u201cIn fact, for decades, at the hands of progressives white males have been the prime villains in the nation\u2019s classrooms, and the principal targets of disapprobation and presumptive guilt in the general political culture as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The authors of this powerful little pamphlet remind us of the swiftness with which the media rushed to convict \u201cwhite Hispanic\u201d George Zimmerman in the shooting death of black 17 year-old Trayvon Martin, as well as the white Duke University lacrosse players who were bogusly charged by a black stripper with rape. They also revisit the deafening silence with which these same media figures met the rapturous eruptions of blacks nationwide when O.J. Simpson was acquitted of double homicide.<\/p>\n

Yet these are far from the only exhibits that Horowitz and Perazzo submit to substantiate the ubiquity of black skin privilege. \u00a0Demolishing one sacred Politically Correct idol after the other, the authors take down names and unveil facts that are as ugly as they are suppressed.<\/p>\n

The degree to which American life is soaked in black skin privilege can be seen not just in the fact that Americans have now twice elected a black man to the presidency who is not only singularly unaccomplished professionally, but, \u201cwith an unrepentant terrorist [Bill Ayers] and a racial bigot [Jeremiah Wright] as his close collaborators,\u201d gravely challenged ethically.\u00a0 That ostensibly Christian clerics and some of the most reckless race baiters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton\u2014high priests of what I have called the \u201cRacism Industrial Complex\u201d\u2014can continue to command exorbitant fortunes and lofty praise by politicians and the media alike confirms this as well.<\/p>\n

Horowitz and Perazzo even show that black skin privilege transcends continents.\u00a0 Alluding to South Africa\u2019s Bishop Demond Tutu, they write: \u201cWhat white spiritual leader could support the torture-murders of South African blacks, compare Israel to Nazi Germany, and still be regarded as a moral icon? A black cleric like Bishop Desmond Tutu can.\u201d (Indeed, as occasional Front Page Magazine contributor and former South African resident Ilana Mercer amply demonstrates in her, Into the Cannibal\u2019s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, <\/em>the new South Africa is black skin privilege on steroids.)<\/p>\n

However, Horowitz and Perazzo don\u2019t offer just a rogues’ list of well known names in their treatise on black skin privilege. By way of meticulously resourced statistics, they expose readers to the most inconvenient truths regarding the obscene levels of black-on-white crime\u2014truths, that is, that will never spring from the lips of the professional \u201canti-racists\u201d in the usual precincts of our culture.\u00a0 And they disclose what promises to be a revelation to many Americans: within just \u201cthe last few years\u201d (after Obama\u2019s inauguration), \u201cthere have been hundreds of black race riots in more than fifty American cities\u201d in which roving mobs of blacks \u201chave targeted whites for beatings, shootings, stabbings and rapes [.]\u201d<\/p>\n

There is much more to be reaped from BSP.\u00a0 <\/em>Needless to say, those who benefit from black skin privilege will blast its authors as \u201cracist\u201d for just mentioning any of this. In contrast, people of good will, regardless of their color, will understand and appreciate that far from being animated by any racial animus, Horowitz and Perazzo are rather inspired by a vision of a common humanity and an American ideal rooted in the rule of law\u2014not racial favoritism.<\/p>\n

They deserve to be commended for their courage in daring to speak these truths.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the rest of us, of all races, owe it to ourselves and our posterity to give them a hearing by reading Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream. <\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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