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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
- What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community
- De: Steven Rogers
- Narrado por: Terrence Kidd
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 5
In straightforward language, A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues encourages every White person to share his/her wealth with the Black community - plain and simple. Those who listen to the book will: understand the root causes of racial disparities in America; discover how you can personally contribute to reducing the inequality between Black and White people in the United States today; and get concrete recommendations on how to redirect your spending to Black-owned institutions to help decrease the racial wealth gap.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat informative. Poor arguments
- De Anonymous User en 10-14-22
- A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
- What You Can Do Right Now to Help the Black Community
- De: Steven Rogers
- Narrado por: Terrence Kidd
Somewhat informative. Poor arguments
Revisado: 10-14-22
Essentially this entire book can be summarized with this:
Blacks have suffered a lot of mistreatment at the hands of whites since 1619 in the USA. The effects of this mistreatment has had a long term impact on blacks that is still apparent today. Therefore, you should give money to blacks.
His arguments never get more complex than that. In some cases this argument is okay but in many applications it is far to simplistic and illogical. I started to get the impression that the author might be downright racist by the end.
Some people are poor due to historical circumstances that are not there fault (slavery is just one of many variables here).
It’s easy to measure how poor someone is. It is not easy to measure how black someone is. There is no reason we can’t use wealth as the deciding factor for our social welfare policies. Why would we draw a race line when we don’t have too? Doing so will leave people out who probably should receive financial aid and take money from those who should not be taken from.
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Darwin's House of Cards
- A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates
- De: Tom Bethell
- Narrado por: Matthew McAuliffe
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 179
In this provocative history of contemporary debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin's theory as a 19th-century idea past its prime, propped up by logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but disintegrating under an onslaught of new scientific discoveries. Bethell presents a concise yet wide-ranging tour of the flash points of modern evolutionary theory. Bethell's account is enriched by his own personal encounters with of some of our era's leading scientists and thinkers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative work.
- De Phillip Walker en 07-31-19
- Darwin's House of Cards
- A Journalist's Odyssey Through the Darwin Debates
- De: Tom Bethell
- Narrado por: Matthew McAuliffe
Fails to refute evolution
Revisado: 05-25-21
Overall this book does a good job of pointing out some of the missing evidence for evolution but I wouldn’t say it disproves anything, nor does it point out any viable alternative.
His most notable point is that no one has ever observed large scale macro evolution in real time or on a molecular level as a result of natural selection. And the fact that scientists aren’t more skeptical than they are regarding this fact is concerning. I would have to agree with him on this point but I’m still not convinced that evolution is incorrect. Sure some mechanisms are unknown but there’s still a large amount of evidence for evolution. It talks about intelligent design for a while but the evidence for intelligent design is still entirely circumstantial. No matter how you slice it, it’s still a god of the gaps argument. Unless you consider a holy book a source of truth.
I’d recommend reading “Why Evolution is True” by Jerry Coyne immediately after or before this book. They compliment each other well and clearly state the position of both sides.
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