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Title: Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land by Randall Robinson ISBN: 0-525-94758-2 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.52 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: one of the wonders of the world
Comment: MLK said it was one of the great wonders of the 20th century, black people's loyalty and literally dying devotion to the United States--checked the Iraq casualties lately? It is a hard place to live in with black skin. Just yesterday in my neighborhood I witnessed Rodney King II. No less than four white cops beating an unharmed black motorist nearly half to death over a minor traffic incident. Just last week I was spoken to and treated in a most unbelievable way, in a way that I know no white person in America would have been treated by one of our civil servants in blue, a traffic cop. Why? I drove up to an EZ pass lane where they were no longer accepting cash. I was called every name in the book, handcuffed etc for an honest and I would think common mistake. You would have thought I committed a capital crime. It's hard living with this sort of thing as a matter of routine. I could go on but won't. Randall made a good case for why no black person should be sticking around these parts. The ship's sinking anyway and we're the canary in the mine so we know. Time to tell America bye bye. It's been grand. Yeah. But we're tired of saving your white a$$ from itself, over and over and over again how many times since 1776? See ya later, take care. Life in the third world isn't so bad at least when Uncle Sam doesn't have a boot on their third world necks. Bravo RR.
Rating: 5
Summary: Crisply Crafted Masterpiece
Comment: First off, know that I'm white, not black, so my glowing recommendation isn't "one brother supporting another." Robinson's writing is quietly impassioned, Koppel-crisp, calmly clear. His observations on the US's political, military and social errors are beautifully, intelligently, prudently stated. I found it hard to argue with Robinson's emotions or logic, which he exquisitely balances in simple yet powerful, unarguably honest descriptions.
Though fed up with what America has been and has become for him as a black man, his observations and opinions echo much that my wife and I have felt for years. He has chosen to move to a smaller, simpler, more honest and direct society in the Caribbean, and he describes the steps to that decision in spartan prose reminiscent of a Thoreau or Hemingway.
Reading Robinson is akin to contemplating the clean lines of Danish furniture. This is a book that, aesthetically and ideologically, deserves to be read. I can't imagine any sensible, sensitive and honest person being disappointed by this gracefully and skillfully crafted book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Randalls Quitting America
Comment: Quitting America is one of the best books that I have ever read. It has given me a different outlook on the place we call home. Randall gives his point of view on America and how Americans are perceived by others across the world. Even though he is bashing white America, people of all races will be able to relate to what he is saying.
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Title: The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks by Randall N. Robinson ISBN: 0452282101 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America by Randall N. Robinson ISBN: 0452279682 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro ISBN: 019515147X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other by Randall N. Robinson ISBN: 052594625X Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 10 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ready for Revolution : The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Stokely Carmichael, John Edgar Wideman ISBN: 0684850036 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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