James Walker

A masterpiece and a modern classic!

Revisado: 04-08-25

like many modern works, this masterfully written piece of intellectual history manages to discuss anti Judaism by taking us to the paces of primary sources rather than modern political discourse. students of religion, politics, philosophy, and world history will find this a delight to listen to and a source of enlightenment on how Judaism not only played a role in advancing the societies that often punished actual Jews for following it, but also served as a boogeyman for those who wanted to silence debate.

I say this as a rabbi - the work is not against Judaism at all but it is a way of tracing opposition to Judaism from both the right wing and the left wing of thinkers over the last 2,000 years.

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As a Rabbi, this should be required reading

Revisado: 04-28-24

Every contributor said the quiet part about what's lacking in Jewish leadership, out loud. The Passover campus takeovers in America after the High Holy Day Hamas attacks on Israel only make this case painfully more urgent.

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Amazingly Accurate Prediction of Black Culture

Revisado: 09-29-23

Written in 1899, one could easily see his warnings and his aspirations equally realized that the current state of the black community 124 years later. This is a must-read.

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Required reading for Africana Studies

Revisado: 09-21-22

This nonfiction work is the audio equivalent of a page-turner, which is a testament to the expertise of the author who narrates it. This work should be required reading for students of Africana studies as well as Judaic studies, especially given his constant references to primary and secondary sources throughout the work. The focus of this book is neither racism nor conversion, so members of other religions and ethnicities can find this book useful in understanding a nuanced approach to Black history and Jewish-Christian relations. I say this is as rabbinical student.

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The Best Combination of Black Scholarship

Revisado: 10-29-21

This work by moderate and conservative black leaders in business, policy, and philosophy is the perfect counterbalance to the reductive racialism of as Critical Race Theory activists. As noted in every chapter, the goal is to tell the full story of Black victory over slavery and segregation, rather than crafting a victimhood narrative that excuses internal faults and belittles the value of self discipline.

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A Book of Blame.

Revisado: 08-23-21

As a scholar of African American history, this is a work which flattened all references to achievement and uplift, and sought to instead create a revisionist history of how little has changed in 400 years. I not only listened to every minute of this audiobook, but wrote three graduate essays on it over the last semester, so I can speak with a great deal if experience. Readers are best served by reading autobiographical materials from the interesting figures that are discussed in each chapter, than to read the highly political editorializing of the various authors who, (per the Introduction) often "creatively" write vignettes "based" on the period of history they were assigned. This means that, you are reading a work that is historical fiction, and arguably a work meant to promote Kendi and BLM's ideological framework more than understand the complex story of Blacks who pushed for equality all in the process of making the country a better place for all. If there is any way to summarize just how pessimistic this book is, consider the following: in the two chapters that cover the time period that Barack Obama was President, there's only about a paragraph worth of information about his accomplishments.

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A gem of highly accessible science

Revisado: 08-20-20

This is a very thorough, balanced approach to understanding the implications of genetic information on the design and origin of life on Earth. The author not only explains the concepts thoroughly and both laymen's as well as biological terms, but he also is honest enough to review the work of his critics and allow the reader to draw conclusions.

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Audiobook was so informat that I ordered the ebook

Revisado: 07-07-20

I like that this approach had such rich content that it made sense to company it with the ebook so that I could highlight as I heard a silly and best practices

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A masterpiece on evidence based policies

Revisado: 06-10-20

I hope that in the age of protests and rioting, Americans pause to listen for a few hours to a rational educated African-American man who's willing to question the Orthodoxy that is being touted about race relations in the 21st century

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Good content, but its over 4 years behind

Revisado: 05-27-20

Misconceptions about the difficulties of clinics just a smattering of decoration about cloud solutions If this otherwise well written the book mostly obsolete in 2020

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