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Title: What Color is a Conservative? by J. C. Watts, Chriss Winston ISBN: 0-06-019436-7 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Readers Review
Comment: I did not know what to expect when I picked up this book, but found it was hard to put down. I was very pleased with what I found. Watts begins the book with a background of his life growing up in Oklahoma . The rest of the book flows smoothly as he chronologically describes his college days, his marriage, professional football career, and his political years. He describes certain events in his life that led him to his conservative views. I would encourage anyone to read this book, as it causes the reader to reflect upon their own childhood and politcal views.
Rating: 4
Summary: What Color Indeed
Comment: I received this book as a gift, probably because I had been lamenting how Congress lost a great leader in J.C. Watts, Jr. In this book Watts asks the question: "How can a black man be a Republican, a conservative one at that?" (p. xi.) For him it is common sense; his upbringing and experience growing up on the "wrong side of the tracks" in small town Eufaula, Oklahoma, led him to become the conservative that he is today. The book is littered with examples of how his life experience controlled his voting record.
What particularly interested me is a theme Watts repeatedly returned to concerning a new kind of segregation and bigotry, based not on our skin color but rather what we might believe. Many have fallen victim to the Intolerant Left - Walter Williams, Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell are a few names - merely because they have conservative values. One reviewer below makes our point: "File this one next to your biographies of Clarence 'Uncle' Thomas, Colin 'Token' Powell, and Kindasleezy 'White' Rice." Such asinine and inflammatory comments do not deserve a reply but Watts says of this attitude:
"Could there be any sadder commentary on the state of black America today than this? That one of our nation's greatest heroes [Powell], a man of unquestionable integrity, courage, and compassion, who has dedicated serving his life to others, doesn't 'reflect the African American community'? What can any of us do other than shake our heads in sadness that an articulate, extraordinary talented, brilliant woman [Rice] who has ever served both the highest echelons of our government and one of the world's leading institutions of higher learning doesn't 'reflect the African American community'?" (p. 247.)
One problem though is Watts' high view of Abraham Lincoln. This is not surprising as almost everyone idolizes the man. Thus I recommend Thomas J. Dilorenzo's The Real Lincoln. But this is my only bone with Watts. The book is worth the read and you'll come out with a fresh perspective. I know I did.
Rating: 5
Summary: Correction
Comment: This is a brief correction posted in response to the review dated December 2, 2003. The "quoted" words do not appear on page 168 or anywhere else in the book. Additionally Mr. J. C. Watts, Jr. gets five stars from me, not only because I highly doubt that he would say such things, but also because I admire anyone who is willing to go against the grain in ways that may provide valuable learning experiences for us all.
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Title: An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal [Or How I Became the Most Hated Hispanic in America] by Linda Chavez ISBN: 0465089038 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Scam : How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America by Jesse Lee Peterson ISBN: 0785263314 Publisher: WND Books Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D'Souza ISBN: 0465017339 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat by Zell Miller, Smyth, Helwys Pub Stroud, Hall Pub ISBN: 0974537616 Publisher: Stroud & Hall Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies, and the Special Interests that Divide America by Larry Elder ISBN: 0312301790 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 04 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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